Using tag clouds to promote community awareness in research environments

Authors:
Alexandre De Spindler;Stefania Leone;Matthias Geel;Moira C. Norrie
Affiliations:
Institute for Information Systems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;Institute for Information Systems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;Institute for Information Systems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;Institute for Information Systems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Venue:
CDVE'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Cooperative design, visualization, and engineering
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Tag clouds have become a popular visualisation scheme for presenting an overview of the content of document collections. We describe how we have adapted tag clouds to provide visual summaries of researchers' activities and use these to promote awareness within a research group. Each user is associated with a tag cloud that is generated automatically based on the documents that they read and write and is integrated into an ambient information system that we have implemented.