期刊名称：Journal of Computer Sciences and Applications
印刷版ISSN：2328-7268
电子版ISSN：2328-725X
出版年度：2015
卷号：3
期号：4
页码：94-99
DOI：10.12691/jcsa-3-4-2
出版社：Science and Education Publishing
摘要：The traditional cascading menu, commonly used in most desktop applications to traverse hierarchical menu systems, can be a time consuming and difficult task. In particular, the wider the submenu the more difficult it becomes to navigate the constraints of a menu item to reach the submenu. As a consequence, the submenu may disappear requiring additional attempts to attain the submenu. When a target menu items resides several layers deep, the required navigation can produce inefficient time and distance management. In this paper, we present an innovative cascading menu called the zigzag menu to address these issues. In the zigzag menu, submenus appear in alternating directions reducing the navigational distance to reach a submenu. A user study confirmed that a zigzag cascading menu effectively reduces the total mouse traversal required and decreases navigational time as familiarity with the system increases.
关键词：human computer interaction; menu navigation; cascading menus; steering law
