The visual display of quantitative information
The visual display of quantitative information
Information visualization: perception for design
Information visualization: perception for design
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
Off the beaten tracks: exploring three aspects of web navigation
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Improved annotation of the blogosphere via autotagging and hierarchical clustering
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Getting our head in the clouds: toward evaluation studies of tagclouds
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
An assessment of tag presentation techniques
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
The folksonomy tag cloud: when is it useful?
Journal of Information Science
Building tag clouds in perl and php
Building tag clouds in perl and php
Semantically structured tag clouds: an empirical evaluation of clustered presentation approaches
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
TagClusters: Semantic Aggregation of Collaborative Tags beyond TagClouds
SG '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Smart Graphics
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Comparison of Tag Cloud Layouts: Task-Related Performance and Visual Exploration
INTERACT '09 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Part I
Visual Search Strategies of Tag Clouds - Results from an Eyetracking Study
INTERACT '09 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Part II
Learning by Foraging: The Impact of Social Tags on Knowledge Acquisition
EC-TEL '09 Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning: Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines
Document word clouds: visualising web documents as tag clouds to aid users in relevance decisions
ECDL'09 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
Timeline interactive multimedia experience (time): on location access to aggregate event information
Proceedings of the 10th annual joint conference on Digital libraries
Tag, cloud and ontology based retrieval of images
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Computational creativity tools for songwriters
CALC '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity
Tag expression: tagging with feeling
UIST '10 Proceedings of the 23nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Using tag clouds to promote community awareness in research environments
CDVE'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Cooperative design, visualization, and engineering
The Foundations for Provenance on the Web
Foundations and Trends in Web Science
An empirical comparison of tag clouds and tables
Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction
Tag clouds as social signallers
Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PETAC: from visualisation to personalisation of tag clouds
Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
Word clouds of multiple search results
IRFC'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Multidisciplinary information retrieval facility
Using synchronised tag clouds for browsing data collections
CAiSE'11 Proceedings of the 23rd international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
The effect of activity on relevance and granularity for navigation
COSIT'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Spatial information theory
Visualizing translation variation: Shakespeare's Othello
ISVC'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advances in visual computing - Volume Part I
Learning by foraging: The impact of individual knowledge and social tags on web navigation processes
Computers in Human Behavior
The use of tag clouds to support the discovery and inspection of information services
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Web APIs and Service Mashups
How different are language models andword clouds?
ECIR'2010 Proceedings of the 32nd European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
SimSpectrum: a similarity based spectral clustering approach to generate a tag cloud
ICWE'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Current Trends in Web Engineering
A visualization model supporting an efficient context resumption in collaboration environments
UMAP'11 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Advances in User Modeling
FatFonts: combining the symbolic and visual aspects of numbers
Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
Evaluating tag-based information access in image collections
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM conference on Hypertext and social media
Rolled-out Wordles: A Heuristic Method for Overlap Removal of 2D Data Representatives
Computer Graphics Forum
The Tag Genome: Encoding Community Knowledge to Support Novel Interaction
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) - Special Issue on Common Sense for Interactive Systems
Methodologies for improved tag cloud generation with clustering
ICWE'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Web Engineering
The design of TaCS: applying social tagging to enhance learning
International Journal of Learning Technology
IHC em contexto: o que as palavras relevam sobre ela
Proceedings of the 11th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems
TagClusters: Enhancing Semantic Understanding of Collaborative Tags
International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics
A cloud of FAQ: A highly-precise FAQ retrieval system for the Web 2.0
Knowledge-Based Systems
Interactive by-example design of artistic packing layouts
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Software tools for the visualization of definition networks in legal contracts
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
Tag cloud generation for results of multiple keywords queries
ICWE'13 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Web Engineering
Interactive digital TV as revealed through words: focuses and research sources
Proceedings of the 19th Brazilian symposium on Multimedia and the web
Universal access to interaction as revealed by UAHCI words
UAHCI'13 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: design methods, tools, and interaction techniques for eInclusion - Volume Part I
What motivates people use social tagging
OCSC'13 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Online Communities and Social Computing
FacetClouds: exploring tag clouds for multi-dimensional data
Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013
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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 font size, weight, or colour. Although tag clouds are becoming common, there is still little information about which visual features of tags draw the attention of viewers. As tag clouds attempt to represent a wider range of variables with a wider range of visual properties, it becomes difficult to predict what will appear visually important to a viewer. To investigate this issue, we carried out an exploratory study that asked users to select tags from clouds that manipulated nine visual properties. Our results show that font size and font weight have stronger effects than intensity, number of characters, or tag area; but when several visual properties are manipulated at once, there is no one property that stands out above the others. This study adds to the understanding of how visual properties of text capture the attention of users, indicates general guidelines for designers of tag clouds, and provides a study paradigm and starting points for future studies. In addition, our findings may be applied more generally to the visual presentation of textual hyperlinks as a way to provide more information to web navigators.