Reminds me of the "second guessing" menus that one of Ted Selker's students came up with at Media Lab (sorry I don't remember her name). It inspired me to imple

Reminds me of the "second guessing" menus that one of Ted Selker's students came up with at Media Lab (sorry I don't remember her name). It inspired me to implement the same idea with pie menus, many years ago (when JavaScript was young and XML and XSLT were cool): JavaScript Pie Menus https://youtu.be/R5k4gJK-aWw?t=255 https://youtu.be/R5k4gJK-aWw?t=255 Transcript: This was inspired by some research at MIT Media Lab. This is a demonstration of pie menus that guess what your second choice would be. When I click up [a pie menu], it allows me to select my favorite color. Let me zoom in here. Well I think it's blue [point at blue]. No, red [point at red]! Ok. So it says: "I think your favorite color is red, but your second favorite color is blue." And that's based on the fact that when I popped it up, even though I [finally] selected red, I spend the most time selecting [pointing at] blue. People tend to browse the pie menus like this, looking at things, and when they find what they like, they'll click it. But then they'll pause to consider things. So I can click up the menu, and go [point at] yellow, oh no, I'll just cancel it. And now it's guessing my favorite color is yellow, even though I didn't select one. This is a really simple elegant idea that I applied to pie menus, and it can be applied to a lot of other things, like e-commerce, or art galleries, or whatever. I wrote more about it earlier in a response to a question about exploratory pointing (what I call "browsing" and "reselection"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17123091 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17123091 pvg on May 22, 2018 | root | parent | next [–] Although, since you're on the line, I have a question about your last post. In all the research and measurement that's gone into pie menus, have people looked into 'exploratory pointing' in pie menus? It's very common when looking through a linear menu with a mouse (many people also do it with text selection while reading) but it's super clunky and jittery in the actual pie menus I've seen in the wild. [...]