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View all- Oo TLiu HNyirongo B(2018)Dynamic Ranking of Refactoring Menu Items for Integrated Development EnvironmentIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2018.28837696(76025-76035)Online publication date: 2018
An Empirical Study to Evaluate the Best Anchoring Positions in Nested Menus for Optimized Access Time
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Pragya Kandari, 
Ajay JainAuthors Info & Claims
Pragya Kandari, Ajay JainAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 1 - 8
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In any application user interface, a user spends some amount of time trying to access specific menu items. This time increases when the menu item is nested deep within hierarchical menu. The goal of a user is to reach a menu item with as few clicks, as possible. And, the number of clicks/time depends on how the parent and child menu items are nested and laid out on the interface.
This paper analyzes the organization of parent and child menu items on a user interface and is an empirical study to determine the optimum positions of anchoring points between the parent and child menus. The findings of this study would help user interface designers to optimize the time traversed by users in reaching a specific menu item.
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Ajay Jain: Approach for reducing menu access time by enabling bidirectional cursor movement within nested menu(s). ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 36(5) (2011)
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Published: 28 July 2015
Published in SIGSOFT Volume 40, Issue 4
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