Bubbling Menu
A bubbling menu is a Drop-Down Menu with Bubble Cursor selection. Additionally you can use directional mouse-gestures to faster select frequently selected items, that are highlighted.
Unlike the Split Menu, the bubbling menu does not disrupt the original structure of menus.
Publications
Bubbling menus: a selective mechanism for accessing hierarchical drop-down menus
Conference: CHI '07, 2007By: Theophanis Tsandilas, M.C. Schraefel