Optimization of Menu Layouts by Means of Genetic Algorithms

Troiano, Luigi; Birtolo, Cosimo; Armenise, Roberto; Cirillo, Gennaro

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“…Another example is provided by the selection of menu structures that meeting a set of preferences regarding order, number, duplicates and position of items, maximize functionality accessibility [9]. Again, a genetic algorithm can be implemented in order to identify best menu layouts.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Existing guidelines, such as Apple's Human Interface Guidelines [1] and Sun's Java Look and Feel Guidelines [7] are either too specific or too vague, so they do not always apply to the problem at hand [9]. Recent works [4][5] [9] use meta-heuristic and evolutionary techniques to organize a structural element of a interface such as menus or interface layout [4] [9] or non structural features such as fonts or colors [5].…”

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Generative UI design in SAPI project

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Birtolo

Troiano

2008

CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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In this paper we provide an overview of the SAPI project, an initiative of Poste Italiane in collaboration with RCOSTUniversity of Sannio, ITSLab and CRIAI, supported by MIUR, Italian Ministry of University and Research. The project is aimed at developing a software platform, that implementing a novel approach to the user interface generation centered on search based techniques, will provide automatic and semi-automatic adaptation of user interface to vision impaired people.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Innovation Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Generative UI design in SAPI project

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Birtolo

Troiano

2008

CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Menu systems are key components in modern graphical user interfaces, either for traditional desktop applications or for the latest web applications (Troiano, Birtolo, Armenise, & Cirillo, 2008). There has been much research about two-dimensional (2D) menu design for computers and cell phones (see sections 2 and 3).…”

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Menu Design for Computers and Cell Phones: Review and Reappraisal

Kim

Jacko

Salvendy

2011

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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Menu systems have been key components in modern graphical user interfaces, and there has been a lot of research about menu design. Menu design features play a significant role from the perspective of customer satisfaction. Therefore, researchers have investigated various features in menu design. 3D menus have been investigated because these can display more items and provide a natural and intuitive interface. Small screens of the type used on mobile phones are limited in the amount of available space, and thus it might be more beneficial to use 3D menus in cell phones. A review of previous menu design studies for human-computer interaction suggests that menu design guidelines for computers and mobile phones need to be reappraised, especially toward the use of 3D interfaces in cell phones.The main objective of this article is to propose an overall framework for 3D menu interfaces in cell phones. The second objective is to propose guidelines for 2D and 3D menu design in computers and cell phones based on a literature review. Three main factors that might influence the performance of menu retrieval task in cell phones are included in the proposed model: the presentation type, the number of items, and menu type.

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“…The issue regarding how to optimize menu usability by acting on those factors have been investigated in literature (Hollink et al, 2007;Cockburn et al, 2007;Zhang et al, 2007). Recently application of meta-heuristics to optimizing the layout of hierarchical menus have been proposed (Troiano et al, 2008;Matsui and Yamada, 2008). The problem of finding the layout that maximizes usability is combinatorial in nature, as it depends on the arrangement of each item in different positions onto the menu structure.…”

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“…This suggests that the problem is NP-hard. Genetic Algorithms (GA) have been applied with encouraging results (Troiano et al, 2008). Main limitation of this approach resides in the difficulty of modeling the evolution of hierarchical structures by means of linear chromosomes, as those processed by ordinary genetic algorithms.…”

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Supporting Menu Layout Design by Genetic Programming

Birtolo¹,

Armenise²,

Troiano

2010

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

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Graphical User Interfaces heavily rely on menus to access application functionalities. Therefore designing properly menus poses relevant usability issues to face. Indeed, trading off between semantic preferences and usability makes this task not so easy to be performed. Meta-heuristics represent a promising approach in assisting designers to specify menu layouts. In this paper, we propose a preliminary experience in adopting Genetic Programming as a natural means for evolving a menu hierarchy towards optimal structure.

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Optimization of Menu Layouts by Means of Genetic Algorithms

Cited by 14 publications

References 8 publications

Generative UI design in SAPI project

Generative UI design in SAPI project

Menu Design for Computers and Cell Phones: Review and Reappraisal

Supporting Menu Layout Design by Genetic Programming

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