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From: davet@hfserver.hfnet.bt.co.uk (David Travis)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology,comp.cog-eng
Subject: navigating through menus with colour
Keywords: colour, menus
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Date: 1 Jun 89 12:35:34 GMT
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk UK
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One problem with menu-driven interfaces is that they encourage users to
be lazy: if you ask them to recall the options on a pull-down menu,
performance is very poor. Options are recalled by their approximate
spatial position in the menu. A prediction from this would be that
colour-coding menu items would improve search times. Has there been any
work produced on navigating through menus using colour as a cue?