Pie Menu References

Here are some references to things written about pie menus by Don Hopkins:

• Pie Menu Video.
  Instructional demo of ActiveX pie menus, and demos of many different pie menus developed over 12 years.
• The Design and Implementation of Pie Menus.
  By Don Hopkins. Dr. Dobb's Journal, Dec. 1991. Lead article, user interface issue.
• The Shape of PSIBER Space: PostScript Interactive Bug Eradication Routines.
  By Don Hopkins. Proc. 1989 Usenix Graphics Conference, Monterey California.
• A Comparative Analysis of Pie Menu Performance.
  By Jack Callahan, Don Hopkins, Mark Weiser, and Ben Shneiderman. Proc. CHI'88 conference, Washington D.C.
• Designing to Facilitate Browsing: a Look Back at the HyperTIES Workstation Browser.
  By Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Rodrigo Botafogo, Don Hopkins, and William Weiland. Hypermedia, V3 #2, 1991
• Directional Selection is Easy as Pie Menus!
  By Don Hopkins. ;login: The Usenix Association Newsletter, V12 #5, Sept. 1987

These are some other people who have done interesting stuff relating to pie menus:

• Russell Nelson is maintaining piewm, an X11 window manager I enhanced to support pie menus.
• Where in the world is Paolo Tosolini? [Bellevue, WA, last I heard.] He has written pie menus for Asymetrix ToolBook, and the source code is available here: piemnu30.zip, pie2lang.zip. He maintains a ToolBook User's Web page where you can find all kinds of great stuff. If you read Italian, and have an Acrobat reader, check out Gestures as interaction technique with the computer. And here's a paper in English called Time and gesture based interfaces, a test case: Shinjuku Guide.
• Carl C. Rollo has implemented pie menus for Windows and Java, and has written web page about Pie Menus for Windows, A Brief Description of Pie Menus for Windows, and Pie on the Menu in Your Program.
• Bert Bos has written an X11 piemenu widget, for the Free Widget Foundation.
• Here are some references to Kurtenbach and Buxton's work on "marking menus": Kurtenback, Buxton, Issues in Combining Marking and Direct Manipulation Techniques, Proceedings of UIST '91. Kurtenback, Sellen, Buxton, An Empirical Evaluation of some Articulatory and Cognitive Aspects of Marking Menus, Journal HCI, January 1993. Kurtenback, Buxton, The Limits of Expert Performance Using Hierarchic Marking Menus. Proceedings of CHI '93. NOTE: Alias|Wavefront lawyers will sue you if you use Marking Menus so beware.
• Pie menus are mentioned in A Taxonomy of See-Through Tools, by Bier, Stone, Fishkin, Buxton, and Baudel.
• And here's The Pie Page, of course!
• You may enjoy watching Bill Gates get pied on a trip to Brussels.
• And if you're over 18, be sure to check out what's on the pie menu at The Fantasy Cafe!