SparTag.us: a low cost tagging system for foraging of web content Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3403864, abstract = {Tagging systems such as del.icio.us and Diigo have become important ways for users to organize information gathered from the Web. However, despite their popularity among early adopters, tagging still incurs a relatively high interaction cost for the general users. We introduce a new tagging system called SparTag.us, which uses an intuitive Click2Tag technique to provide in situ, low cost tagging of web content. SparTag.us also lets users highlight text snippets and automatically collects tagged or highlighted paragraphs into a system-created notebook, which can be later browsed and searched. We report several user studies aimed at evaluating Click2Tag and SparTag.us.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Hong, Lichan and Chi, Ed H. and Budiu, Raluca and Pirolli, Peter and Nelson, Les}, booktitle = {AVI '08: Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces}, citeulike-article-id = {3403864}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1385569.1385582}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1385569.1385582}, doi = {10.1145/1385569.1385582}, isbn = {0-978-60558-141-5}, keywords = {click2tag, cost, highlighitng, low, tagging}, location = {Napoli, Italy}, pages = {65--72}, posted-at = {2008-10-15 00:18:01}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {SparTag.us: a low cost tagging system for foraging of web content}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1385569.1385582}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3403864 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3403864 N2 - Tagging systems such as del.icio.us and Diigo have become important ways for users to organize information gathered from the Web. However, despite their popularity among early adopters, tagging still incurs a relatively high interaction cost for the general users. We introduce a new tagging system called SparTag.us, which uses an intuitive Click2Tag technique to provide in situ, low cost tagging of web content. SparTag.us also lets users highlight text snippets and automatically collects tagged or highlighted paragraphs into a system-created notebook, which can be later browsed and searched. We report several user studies aimed at evaluating Click2Tag and SparTag.us. CY - Napoli, Italy SN - 0-978-60558-141-5 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 72 TI - SparTag.us: a low cost tagging system for foraging of web content PB - ACM T2 - AVI '08: Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces SP - 65 KW - click2tag KW - cost KW - highlighitng KW - low KW - tagging AU - Hong, Lichan AU - Chi, Ed AU - Budiu, Raluca AU - Pirolli, Peter AU - Nelson, Les PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1385569.1385582 ER -