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Eye tracking the visual search of click-down menus

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Michael D. Byrne,

John R. Anderson,

Scott Douglass,

Michael MatessaAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '99: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 402 - 409

https://doi.org/10.1145/302979.303118

Published: 01 May 1999 Publication History

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Click-down (or pull-down) menus have long been a key component of graphical user interfaces, yet we know surprisingly little about how users actually interact with such menus. Nilsens [8] study on menu selection has led to the development of a number of models of how users perform the task [6, 21. However, the validity of these models has not been empirically assessed with respect to eye movements (though [l] presents some interesting data that bear on these models). The present study is an attempt to provide data that can help refine our understanding of how users interact with such menus.

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