Getting our head in the clouds: toward evaluation studies of tagclouds Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:1343286, abstract = {Tagclouds are visual presentations of a set of words, typically a set of ” tags” selected by some rationale, in which attributes of the text such as size, weight, or color are used to represent features, such as frequency, of the associated terms. This note describes two studies to evaluate the effectiveness of differently constructed tagclouds for the various tasks they can be used to support, including searching, browsing, impression formation and recognition. Based on these studies, we propose a paradigm for evaluating tagclouds and ultimately guidelines for tagcloud construction.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Rivadeneira, A. W. and Gruen, Daniel M. and Muller, Michael J. and Millen, David R.}, booktitle = {CHI '07: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {1343286}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1240775}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240775}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1240624.1240775}, doi = {10.1145/1240624.1240775}, isbn = {9781595935939}, keywords = {evaluation, tag, visualization}, pages = {995--998}, posted-at = {2007-10-27 01:14:56}, priority = {3}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {Getting our head in the clouds: toward evaluation studies of tagclouds}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240775}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1343286 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1343286 N2 - Tagclouds are visual presentations of a set of words, typically a set of “tags” selected by some rationale, in which attributes of the text such as size, weight, or color are used to represent features, such as frequency, of the associated terms. This note describes two studies to evaluate the effectiveness of differently constructed tagclouds for the various tasks they can be used to support, including searching, browsing, impression formation and recognition. Based on these studies, we propose a paradigm for evaluating tagclouds and ultimately guidelines for tagcloud construction. SN - 9781595935939 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 998 TI - Getting our head in the clouds: toward evaluation studies of tagclouds PB - ACM Press T2 - CHI '07: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 995 KW - evaluation KW - tag KW - visualization AU - Rivadeneira, AW AU - Gruen, Daniel AU - Muller, Michael AU - Millen, David PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240775 ER -