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Developing user interface guidelines for DVD menus

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Karin Kappel,

Martin Tomitsch,

Thomas Költringer,

Thomas GrechenigAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '06: CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 177 - 182

https://doi.org/10.1145/1125451.1125490

Published: 21 April 2006 Publication History

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Watching DVDs can be a frustrating experience, because DVD menus often miss out on usability and are complex and difficult to navigate through. Similar to the early years of web development, there is a lack of design standards. In this paper, we show the development of user interface guidelines for DVD menus. These guidelines can be used to design and evaluate DVD menus. We built a prototype according to the guidelines, conducted usability tests with the prototype and evaluated other movie DVDs using the guidelines to show the applicability, utility and usability of the guidelines.

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Developing user interface guidelines for DVD menus
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
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CHI EA '06: CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2006

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ISBN:1595932984

DOI:10.1145/1125451

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