Design Space and Users’ Preferences for Smartglasses Graphical Menus: A Vignette Study

We address in this work visual menus for smartglasses by proposing a wide range of design options, such as shape, location, orientation, and presentation modalities, which we compile in a design space with eight dimensions. From this design space, we select a subset of fourteen 2-D menus, for which we collect users’ preferences during a vignette experiment with N=251 participants. We report numerical measures of absolute, relative, and aggregate preference for smartglasses menus, and employ a particular Thurstone’s pairwise comparison technique, the Bradley-Terry model, to evaluate menu designs. Our results highlight key variables influencing users’ preferences regarding the visual appearance of smartglasses menus, which we use to discuss opportunities for future work.