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

Authors:
Lichan Hong;Ed H. Chi;Raluca Budiu;Peter Pirolli;Les Nelson
Affiliations:
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA;Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA;Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA;Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA;Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA
Venue:
AVI '08 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
Year:
2008

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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.