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Summary: Zone and Polygon Menus: Using Relative Position to
Increase the Breadth of Multi-Stroke Marking Menus
Shengdong Zhao1
Maneesh Agrawala2, 3
Ken Hinckley3
ABSTRACT
We present Zone and Polygon menus, two new variants of
multi-stroke marking menus that consider both the relative
position and orientation of strokes. Our menus are designed
to increase menu breadth over the 8 item limit of status quo
orientation-based marking menus. An experiment shows
that Zone and Polygon menus can successfully increase
breadth by a factor of 2 or more over orientation-based
marking menus, while maintaining high selection speed and
accuracy. We also discuss hybrid techniques that may fur-
ther increase menu breadth and performance. Our tech-
niques offer UI designers new options for balancing menu
breadth and depth against selection speed and accuracy.
ACM Classification: H5.2 [Information interfaces and
presentation]: User Interfaces. Graphical user interfaces.
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