Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!brunix!iris.brown.edu!jhc From: jhc@iris.brown.edu (James H. Coombs) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: Menu Interaction Techniques Message-ID: <16179@brunix.UUCP> Date: 25 Sep 89 16:54:28 GMT References: <2722@trantor.harris-atd.com> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Organization: IRIS Lines: 19 In article <2722@trantor.harris-atd.com> chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes: > I contended that each menu usage would require a visual > search and explicit select action, making it harder to use. I have seen no research on this, so I will offer an observation. I frequently find that I select the wrong item or no item at all when I attempt to select from a menu without focusing my vision on the desired item. I have not experienced the equivalent of touch typing with menu selection. D. A. Norman is right on target: menus are optimized for selection but pessimized for performance. --Jim Dr. James H. Coombs Senior Software Engineer, Research Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship Box 1952, Brown University, Providence, RI 01912