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The role of menu titles as a navigational aid in hierarchical menus

Published: 01 January 1986 Publication History

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A between-subjects experiment was conducted to determine the effects of the presence/absence of menu titles on the search time and the number of incorrect choices made when navigating a hierarchical menu structure. Subjects were required to search for a randomly selected target item in a four level, three choices per level (43) menu structure. Subjects in the experimental group had titles for each sub-menu screen. Titles reflected the path traversed from the previous sub-menu screens. Control group subjects did not have titles displayed. While subjects in the experimental group did not search at a statistically significant faster rate, as the depth of the search (level) increased they did search with greater accuracy than those in the control group.

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cover image ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
ACM SIGCHI Bulletin  Volume 17, Issue 3
January 1986
39 pages
ISSN:0736-6906
DOI:10.1145/15671
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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 01 January 1986
Published in SIGCHI Volume 17, Issue 3

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