Menu-based Interaction -- Overview
3 basic activities:
-
Navigation (in menu hierarchy,
information resource, etc.)
-
Selection (of data, parameters,
etc.)
-
Activation (of programs, documents,
etc.)
Selection made through
mouse, number/character keys, function keys, cursor keys plus return key,
rotating cursor symbol plus return key, touching on the screen, etc.
Special case: "analog" menus
Types of menus 
- Textual menus
- Graphical menus (icons)
- Combination of text and graphics
- Linear menus
- Menus with spatial layout
- Static menus (e.g., menu bar)
- Pull-down menus
- Pop-up menus
- Isolated menus
- Connected menus (mostly hierarchical
menus)
- Pie menus
