Academic Journal
Fractal Adaptive Menus: Concept, Engineering, and Use Case
| Title: | Fractal Adaptive Menus: Concept, Engineering, and Use Case |
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| Authors: | Sahraoui, Alaa Eddine Anis, Vanderdonckt, Jean, Kieffer, Suzanne, EICS '25: The 17th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems |
| Contributors: | UCL - SSH/LouRIM - Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations |
| Source: | Companion Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems. :42-49 |
| Publisher Information: | ACM, 2025. |
| Publication Year: | 2025 |
| Subject Terms: | Functional analysis, Human-centered computing, Graphical user interfaces, Software and its engineering, Tablet computers, Touch screens, Ubiquitous and mobile devices, Software prototyping, Mathematics of computing, Computational geometry, Theory of computation |
| Description: | The literature is replete with studies that have explored, analyzed, and tested different techniques for ensuring the adaptivity of a menu in graphical user interfaces, mainly by maintaining the format of a menu bar, its pull-down menus, and its sub-menus, while varying its presentation. Instead of restricting adaptivity to this format, adaptivity could be ensured by exploiting the entire display space available in full-screen or intermediate-screen mode. Inspired by fractal geometry, we motivate and define the concept of a fractal adaptive menu, a graphical adaptive menu that benefits from three properties useful for adaptivity: self-similarity, recursive navigation, and hierarchical menu organization. We explain how to engineer this menu for graphical user interfaces and validate this approach with a case study in machine control for a steel mill. In addition to being adaptive to the screen resolution, a fractal adaptive menu is particularly beneficial when menu navigation is repetitive or frequent in a deep hierarchical organization. Proprioceptive memory can make it easier to remember which menu areas to select during a long crossing of the hierarchy. |
| Document Type: | Article Conference object |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3731406.3734978 |
| Access URL: | https://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/302890 |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi.dedup.....ad2d7eca678e1dc16212cce0e6cecef4 |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3731406.3734978 |
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