Embedded menus: selecting items in context

1 April 1986

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM

Vol. 29 (4) , 312-318
https://doi.org/10.1145/5684.5687

Abstract

In many situations, embedded menus represent an attractive alternative to the more traditional explicit menus, particularly in touchtext, spelling checkers, language-based program editors, and graphics-based systems.

Keywords

EMBEDDED MENU
GRAPHICS-BASED SYSTEM
ATTRACTIVE ALTERNATIVE
TRADITIONAL EXPLICIT MENU
LANGUAGE-BASED PROGRAM EDITOR

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