GEDIT - The Use of Single-Stroke Marks (Marking Menus) in Graphical Interaction

This is work builds on my 1982 study on selection-positioning tasks (see links to paper and video in references below), and was done at by Gord Kurtenbach and my self prior to 1990, as part of the research of the Input Research Group (IRG) of the University of Toronto.

GEDIT is an exploration of how to use a single-stroke shorthand marking technique to select and interact with graphical objects. It makes use of radial menus, and constituted some of our early work in what came to be known as a "marking menus." This clip does not demonstrate everything in the referenced paper, but gives the flavour of some of the relevant issues.

Refs:
Kurtenbach, G. & Buxton, W. (1991). GEdit: a testbed for editing by contiguous gesture. SIGCHI Bulletin, 23(2), 22 - 26.
http://www.billbuxton.com/GEditBulletin.html

Buxton, W., (1982).An Informal Study of Selection-Positioning Tasks. Proceedings of Graphics Interface '82, 8th Conference of the Canadian Man-Computer Communications Society, Toronto, May, 1982, 323-328.
http://billbuxton.com/SelecPos.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLYB-fKWFBU

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• marking menus
• pie menus
• radial menus
• short hand
• digital ink
• gesture commands
• graphical interaction
• input techniques
• pen computing
• stylus
• HCI
• User Experience
• tablet computer
• Bill Buxton
• Gord Kurtenbach