Sciweavers

CHI
2009
ACM
13 years 1 months ago
Semantically structured tag clouds: an empirical evaluation of clustered presentation approaches
Tag clouds have become a frequently used interaction technique in the web. Recently several approaches to present tag clouds with the tags semantically clustered have been propose...
Johann Schrammel, Michael Leitner, Manfred Tscheli...
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 1 months ago
On the Navigability of Social Tagging Systems
It is a widely held belief among designers of social tagging systems that tag clouds represent a useful tool for navigation. This is evident in, for example, the increasing number ...
Denis Helic, Christoph Trattner, Markus Strohmaier...
TVCG
2010
142views more  TVCG 2010»
13 years 1 months ago
SparkClouds: Visualizing Trends in Tag Clouds
—Tag clouds have proliferated over the web over the last decade. They provide a visual summary of a collection of texts by visually depicting the tag frequency by font size. In u...
Bongshin Lee, Nathalie Henry Riche, Amy K. Karlson...
IV
2010
IEEE
211views Visualization» more  IV 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Taggram: Exploring Geo-data on Maps through a Tag Cloud-Based Visualization
Searching and exploring on digital maps are normally performed through simple text boxes and zoomand-pan interfaces. In this paper, however, we present a novel technique, namely T...
Dinh-Quyen Nguyen, Heidrun Schumann
INTERACT
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Tagscape: Navigating the Tag Landscape
Recent years have seen an explosion in online collaborative tagging, the most prevalent visualization of which are tag clouds. Despite their popularity, tag clouds suffer from limi...
Lauren Haynes, Aylin Selcukoglu, Sunah Suh, Karrie...
CASCON
2008
124views Education» more  CASCON 2008»
13 years 5 months ago
Synchronized tag clouds for exploring semi-structured clinical trial data
Searching and comparing information from semi-structured repositories is an important, but cognitively complex activity for internet users. The typical web interface displays a li...
Maria-Elena Hernandez, Sean M. Falconer, Margaret-...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
136views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Tag Clouds: Data Analysis Tool or Social Signaller?
We examine the recent information visualization phenomenon known as tag clouds, which are an interesting combination of data visualization, web design element, and social marker. ...
Marti A. Hearst, Daniela Karin Rosner
WSKS
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Towards an "Intelligent" Tagging Tool for Blogs
Tagging allows people to effectively organize web resources such as images, bookmarks or blog articles. Things are found easier by browsing tag clouds relying on the tags that hav...
Juraj Frank, Renate Motschnig, Martin Homola
EDBT
2009
ACM
222views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
13 years 10 months ago
Data clouds: summarizing keyword search results over structured data
Keyword searches are attractive because they facilitate users searching structured databases. On the other hand, tag clouds are popular for navigation and visualization purposes o...
Georgia Koutrika, Zahra Mohammadi Zadeh, Hector Ga...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Tag clouds for summarizing web search results
In this paper, we describe an application, PubCloud that uses tag clouds for the summarization of results from queries over the PubMed database of biomedical literature. PubCloud ...
Benjamin M. Good, Byron Yu-Lin Kuo, Mark D. Wilkin...