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Katrin Sauerwein, Nathalie Prevost, Alexander De Luca
Menu Structuring for Mobile Devices
In Proceedings of MEIS 2008. Munich, Germany, Sept 11, 2008.

This project sets a discussion about possible improvements for mobile menu structuring. Navigation on mobile phones is supposed to get quicker and easier. To reach for better user overview and orientation, the relationship between the single menu items is visualized. To prevent wasting the expensive screen space, icons are used to represent the items. Three different approaches compared as paper prototypes. The first approach Image Embedding simply takes the content and arranges it in its context by drawing according background images. The Manhattan Lens Stairs approach is based on human spatial memory abilities and uses the Manhattan Lens idea to differ between important and unimportant items. Finally the Dynamic Neighbors approach shapes itself up to have most potential. To represent the items relationship, color gradients are used. To enable a quicker navigation process, the items to display are calculated in every navigation step. The approach is implemented and tested in a user study afterwards.