Toolglasses, marking menus, and hotkeys: a comparison of one and two-handed command selection techniques

• Main Authors: ODELL, Daniel L., DAVIS, Richard C., Smith, Andrew, Wright, Paul K.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2004
• Subjects: Bimanual interfaces; two-handed inter-faces; toolglass; bimanual marking menus; command selection.; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/815; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1814/viewcontent/BimanualStudyGI2004_170.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper introduces a new input technique, bimanual marking menus, and compares its performance with five other techniques: static toolbars, hotkeys, grouped hotkeys, marking menus, and toolglasses. The study builds on previous work by setting the comparison in a commonly encountered task, shape drawing. In this context, grouped hotkeys and bimanual marking menus were found to be the fastest. Subjectively, the most pre-ferred input method was bimanual marking menus. Toolglass performance was unexpectedly slow, which hints at the importance of low-level toolglass imple-mentation choices.