Developing user interface guidelines for DVD menus

Watching DVDs can be a frustrating experience, because DVD menus often miss out on usability and are complex and difficult to navigate through. Similar to the early years of web development, there is a lack of design standards. In this paper, we show the development of user interface guidelines for DVD menus. These guidelines can be used to design and evaluate DVD menus. We built a prototype according to the guidelines, conducted usability tests with the prototype and evaluated other movie DVDs using the guidelines to show the applicability, utility and usability of the guidelines. Keywords DVD menu, user interface guidelines, design, usability ACM Classification Keywords H5.2. [Information interfaces and presentation]: User Interfaces - Screen design; Standardization Problem Statement For a recent project we had to design and evaluate different DVD menus. Many problems arise, when developing a DVD menu, concerning usability issues as well as the technological implementation. The repo...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Karin Kappel, Martin Tomitsch, Thomas Grechenig, Thomas Költringer
• Keywords: CHI 2006, DVD Menus, Human Computer Interaction, Keywords DVD Menu, User Interface Guidelines