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Strategies for accelerating on-line learning of hotkeys

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Pierre Dragicevic,

Ravin BalakrishnanAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '07: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1591 - 1600

https://doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240865

Published: 29 April 2007 Publication History

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Hotkeys are extremely useful in leveraging expert performance, but learning them is a slow process. This paper investigates alternative menu designs that can motivate and help users remember associations between menu commands and hotkeys. Building upon previous work on paired-associate learning, we suggest that the transition to expert use can be accelerated by manipulating feedback and cost associated with menu selection. We evaluate five designs in a pilot study and then two of the most promising ones in a formal experiment, showing that the speed of hotkey learning can indeed be significantly increased with little modifications to the standard menu/hotkey paradigm.

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Strategies for accelerating on-line learning of hotkeys
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces

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DOI:10.1145/1240624

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