Menus are used for exploring and selecting commands in interactive applications. They are widespread in current applications and used by a large variety of users. As a consequence, menus are at the heart of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and motivate many studies in HCI. Facing the large variety of designed menu techniques, it is difficult to have a clear understanding of the design possibilities, to understand the advances as well as to compare existing menu techniques.
MenUA (Menu-Usability-Applicability) is a design space
of menu Techniques. It is based on a list of criteria that define a coherent framework of design issues for menus. MenUA helps application designers to make informed design choices and is a support for exploring design alternatives. Finally, MenUA can help to design experiments.
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