Yes, Chauncey - this exactly the reference. The idea would be to reduce the travel time using a mouse or pointing device for menu selection - as one might predict using a GOMS model. I saw it implemented on a Sun Workstation.
> -------Original Message------- > From: Chauncey Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pie Menu Spotted on the Web > Sent: Jun 26 '08 11:42 > > Pie menus appeared on workstations sometime in the mid-1980s and there > was quite a bit of early interest in pie menus since they > theoretically reduce travel time to menu items. There is an earlier > paper that compared pie with linear menus from the U of Maryland: > > Callahan, J., Hopkins, D., Weiser, M., and Shneiderman, B. 1988. An > empirical comparison of pie vs. linear menus. In Proceedings of the > SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Washington, > D.C., United States, May 15 - 19, 1988). J. J. O'Hare, Ed. CHI '88. > ACM, New York, NY, 95-100. > > The abtract from the article states: > > "Menus are largely formatted in a linear fashion listing items from > the top to bottom of the screen or window. Pull down menus are a > common example of this format. Bitmapped computer displays, however, > allow greater freedom in the placement, font, and general presentation > of menus. A pie menu is a format where the items are placed along the > circumference of a circle at equal radial distances from the center. > Pie menus gain over traditional linear menus by reducing target seek > time, lowering error rates by fixing the distance factor and > increasing the target size in Fitts's Law, minimizing the drift > distance after target selection, and are, in general, subjectively > equivalent to the linear style." > > In the real-world, pie menus that had sub-menus and a large number of > items at each level (imagine the Word menus piled onto a > multiple-level pie menu) were cumbersome. Pie menus can be effective > for relatively small numbers of functions. > > The concept of marking menus that follow a mouse pointer/cursor > (especially for tablet computers) has received a lot of research. If > you look in the ACM literature, there is a lot of use of pie menus in > a marking menu system. The prototyping system DENIM uses pie menus. > You can dig around and install a copy of DENIM and try them out in the > contect of a sketching/prototyping tool. > > Chauncey > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:07 AM, John Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I saw "pie menu", I immediately thought of the pie menus designed at > the University of Maryland > > by Don Hopkins et. al. > > > > https://drum.umd.edu/dspace/handle/1903/442 > > > > The website didn't seem to be the same kind of interaction that I had > expected. > > I guess there are different definitions of what a pie menu really is! > > > > John > > > >> -------Original Message------- > >> From: Laura Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Pie Menu Spotted on the Web > >> Sent: Jun 25 '08 18:18 > >> > >> Oops! When I read the title of this post this is what came to mind... > >> > >> http://www.simplesimonspies.co.uk/menu_pies.htm > >> > >> Guess I got the wrong end of the stick! > >> > >> Laura > >> > >> PS - I wanted to link to this site, but cos its flash I couldnt link > >> you to the menu! http://www.pieminister.co.uk/ They are local heroes > >> round here :) > >> ________________________________________________________________ > >> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > >> To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > >> List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > >> List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > >> > > ________________________________________________________________ > > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > > > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
