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From: mejanzen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Michael E. Janzen)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: navigating through menus with colour
Keywords: colour, menus
Message-ID: <10116@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 89 20:20:41 GMT
References: <572@hfserver.hfnet.bt.co.uk>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <572@hfserver.hfnet.bt.co.uk>, davet@hfserver.hfnet.bt.co.uk (David Travis) writes:
> 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? 

I am taking part in research on that topic.  It appears that colour is more
effective than position in improving speed and accuracy of character 
recognition, but combing the two is particularly effective.


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