References

Here I've assembled other work I've found relating to circular menus and Human-Computer Interaction while working on this project. I will soon write a comparison between my circular menus and the ones I've found in these references. In the mean time, here's the short version:

Instead of placing my menu options on a solid circular pie, I divided them into rectangles and arranged those rectangles around a circle, without blotting out anything outside of those rectangles. This avoided the problem of circular menus taking up large portions of the screen.
Whereas other versions of circular menus keep their menu options in the same spot, my menu options are intelligent in that they move in response to the user's pointer motion, anticipating which option the user wants to pick and providing helpful visual cueues regarding which option the computer thinks that the user wants.

Menu-related references

First mention of circular menus:
- 1. Weisman, N.E., Lemke, H.U. & Hiles, J.O. (1969). PIXIE: a new approach to graphical man-machine communication. Proceedings of the 1969 CAD Conference, Southampton, IEEE Conference Publications, 51, 463.
Don Hopkins, el at:
- 2. Don Hopkins' Pie Menu Central
- 3. Callahan J., Hopkins D., Weiser M. and Shneiderman B. "A Comparative Comparison of Pie Vs. Linear Menus". Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 1988). ACM,Washington DC, 95-100.
- 4. Hopkins D. "The Design and Implementation of Pie Menus". Dr. Dobbs Journal. Dec. 1991.
- 5. Hopkins. D. ActiveX Pie Menus.
Carl C. Rollo:
- 6. http://cdt.luth.se/~david/carl/www/mainmenu.html
- 7. Rollo, C., "Pie Menus for Windows", Dr. Dobb's Journal, Nov., 1992, pp 30-39
Gordon Kurtenbach, et al:
- 8. Kurtenbach G. and Buxton W. "Issues in Combining Marking and Direct Manipulation Techniques". Symposium on User Interface and Software Technology (UIST 1995). Hilton Head SC, USA, 137-114.
- 9. Kurtenbach G. and Buxton W. "The Limits of Expert Performance Using Hierarchic Marking Menus". Human factors in computing systems (CHI 1993). ACM, 482-7.
- 10. Kurtenbach, G. and Tapaia M.A. "Some Design Refinements and Principles on the Appearance and Behavior of Marking Menus". Symposium on User Interface and Software Technology (UIST 1995). ACM, Pittsburgh, 189-195.
Bert Bos:
- 11. http://grid.let.rug.nl/~bert/BertBos.html
Others:
- 12. Venolia D. and Neiberg F. "T-Cube: A Fast, Self-Disclosing Pen-Based Alphabet". Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '1994). ACM, Boston MA, 265-2.
- 13. Eric A. Bier, Maureen C. Stone, Ken Fishkin, William Buxton(1), Thomas Baudel(2). "A Taxonomy of See-Through Tools".
- 14. Mills, Z. and M. Prime, "Are All Menus the Same? - An Empirical Study", Human-Computer Interface, INTERACT '90 Proceedings: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1990
- 15. Newman, Sproul, Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics, p224.

General Human-Computer Interaction papers

15. ACM SIGCHI - the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group.
16. Bonnie E. John and Kieras E. David. "The GOMS Family of User Interface Analysis Techniques: Comparison and Contrast". ACM Transactions on Human Computer Interaction. Vol. 3, No. 4, 320-351.
17. Bonnie J. "Why GOMS?" Interactions Vol. 2, No. 4, 80-9.

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