Techniques de menus: description, développement, evaluation

Menu techniques are crucial in interactive systems especially since the number of available commands is continuously increasing. As a consequence, many different kinds of menu techniques have been proposed. It is nevertheless often difficult to ascertain the similarities and differences between exiting menu techniques. In this context, my doctoral studies focus on an examination and development of menu techniques. In this paper we present a first set of characteristics of menu techniques as well as two new menus, namely the Wave and Flower menus. These results constitute the basis for defining a platform dedicated to the design, prototyping and evalution of menu techniques.