Why we tag: motivations for annotation in mobile and online media Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:1279898, abstract = {Why do people tag? Users have mostly avoided annotating media such as photos -- both in desktop and mobile environments -- despite the many potential uses for annotations, including recall and retrieval. We investigate the incentives for annotation in Flickr, a popular web-based photo-sharing system, and ZoneTag, a cameraphone photo capture and annotation tool that uploads images to Flickr. In Flickr, annotation (as textual tags) serves both personal and social purposes, increasing incentives for tagging and resulting in a relatively high number of annotations. ZoneTag, in turn, makes it easier to tag cameraphone photos that are uploaded to Flickr by allowing annotation and suggesting relevant tags immediately after capture.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Ames, Morgan and Naaman, Mor}, booktitle = {CHI '07: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {1279898}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1240624.1240772}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240772}, doi = {10.1145/1240624.1240772}, isbn = {978-1-59593-593-9}, keywords = {annotation, tagging}, location = {San Jose, California, USA}, pages = {971--980}, posted-at = {2007-05-05 20:33:20}, priority = {4}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Why we tag: motivations for annotation in mobile and online media}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240772}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1279898 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1279898 N2 - Why do people tag? Users have mostly avoided annotating media such as photos -- both in desktop and mobile environments -- despite the many potential uses for annotations, including recall and retrieval. We investigate the incentives for annotation in Flickr, a popular web-based photo-sharing system, and ZoneTag, a cameraphone photo capture and annotation tool that uploads images to Flickr. In Flickr, annotation (as textual tags) serves both personal and social purposes, increasing incentives for tagging and resulting in a relatively high number of annotations. ZoneTag, in turn, makes it easier to tag cameraphone photos that are uploaded to Flickr by allowing annotation and suggesting relevant tags immediately after capture. CY - San Jose, California, USA SN - 978-1-59593-593-9 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 980 TI - Why we tag: motivations for annotation in mobile and online media PB - ACM T2 - CHI '07: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 971 KW - annotation KW - tagging AU - Ames, Morgan AU - Naaman, Mor PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240772 ER -