Toolglasses, marking menus, and hotkeys: a comparison of one and two-handed command selection techniques

Author

Daniel L. ODELL, University of California, Berkeley
Richard C. DAVIS, University of California, BerkeleyFollow
Andrew Smith, University of California, Berkeley
Paul K. Wright, University of California, Berkeley

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

5-2004

Abstract

This paper introduces a new input technique, bimanual marking menus, and compares its performance with five other techniques: static toolbars, hotkeys, grouped hotkeys, marking menus, and toolglasses. The study builds on previous work by setting the comparison in a commonly encountered task, shape drawing. In this context, grouped hotkeys and bimanual marking menus were found to be the fastest. Subjectively, the most pre-ferred input method was bimanual marking menus. Toolglass performance was unexpectedly slow, which hints at the importance of low-level toolglass imple-mentation choices.

Keywords

Bimanual interfaces, two-handed inter-faces, toolglass, bimanual marking menus, command selection.

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software Systems

Publication

GI '04 Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2004

First Page

17

Last Page

24

Identifier

9781568812274

City or Country

London, Ontario, Canada

Citation

ODELL, Daniel L.; DAVIS, Richard C.; Smith, Andrew; and Wright, Paul K.. Toolglasses, marking menus, and hotkeys: a comparison of one and two-handed command selection techniques. (2004). GI '04 Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2004. 17-24.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/815

Creative Commons License

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Additional URL

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1006058.1006061