Tag clouds are text-based visual representations of a set of tags usually depicting tag importance by font size. Recent trends in social and collaborative software have greatly increased the popularity of this type of visualization. This paper proposes ...

We report on a design exploration into how a large multi-touch tabletop display can be used for information visualization. We designed an interface where users explored a tagged photo collection by bi-manual manipulation of the collections' tag cloud. ...

Repositories for learning objects typically offer two different views for the discovery of stored content: search based on keywords and navigation in a context-dependent directory. In the course of the Web 2.0 phenomenon, the social tagging mechanism ...

With the growth of social bookmarking a new approach for metadata creation called tagging has emerged. In this paper we evaluate the use of tag presentation techniques. The main goal of our evaluation is to investigate the effect of some of the different ...

Tag clouds have become a frequently used interaction technique in the web in the past couple of years. Research has shown the influence of variables such as tag size and location on the perception of tag clouds. However, several questions remain unclear. ...

This paper proposes a new method for displaying large-scale tag clouds. We use a topographical image that helps users to grasp the relationship among tags intuitively as a background to the tag clouds. We apply this interface to a blog navigation system ...

Aircraft engine repair and overhaul (AERO) is an area of professional activity that draws heavily upon an engineer's knowledge. While engine maintenance typically follows a structured process, engine repairs are subject to unstructured processes. Such ...

We describe a technique for preserving and presenting context and history while navigating web resources described by keywords. We use tagging and tag clouds as an application area for our technique. The technique is illustrated by employing it in a ...

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 proposed. However, it remains unclear whether the expected gains in performance ...

Special-purpose social sites can offer valuable services to well-defined, closed, communities, e.g., in a university or in a corporation. The purpose of this demo is to show the challenges, special features and potential of a focused social system in ...

Tag clouds are a popular method for visualizing and linking socially-organized information on websites. Tag clouds represent variables of interest (such as popularity) in the visual appearance of the keywords themselves - using text properties such as ...

Tag clouds have become a popular visualization and navigation interface on the Web. Despite their popularity, little is known about tag cloud perception and performance with respect to different user goals. This paper presents results from a comparative ...

The weighted list, known popularly as a `tag cloud', has appeared on many popular folksonomy-based web-sites. Flickr, Delicious, Technorati and many others have all featured a tag cloud at some point in their history. However, it is unclear whether ...

This paper introduces the concepts of “summary tag cloud” and “differential tag cloud”. A summary tag cloud is a unique tag cloud that summarizes the contents of all the documents in a set. A differential tag cloud is a tag cloud ...