Getting our head in the clouds: toward evaluation studies of tagclouds
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Tag clouds for summarizing web search results
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
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
Tag Clouds: Data Analysis Tool or Social Signaller?
HICSS '08 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Topigraphy: visualization for large-scale tag clouds
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Seeing things in the clouds: the effect of visual features on tag cloud selections
Proceedings of the nineteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
TopicRank: bringing insight to users
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Semantically structured tag clouds: an empirical evaluation of clustered presentation approaches
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Tag trails: navigation with context and history
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CourseRank: a social system for course planning
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Social software engineering and applications
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
Collabio: a game for annotating people within social networks
Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Tag clouds as social signallers
Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction
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Tag clouds are relatively new, visual representations of tags - and are becoming increasingly popular on the web today. They have shown great potential for use as visualisation or interaction techniques; however, at the same time they have also been shown to be somewhat limited in regards to capabilities and usefulness. In contrast to many popular views on the usefulness of tag clouds, it has been suggested that their primary advantage may be for use as signallers of the social activity occurring within a system - as opposed to purely visualisations of data. Little work has been done on the generation of personalised tag clouds and their effect on increasing users' enjoyment and engagement with a system. We propose PETAC (PErsonal TAg Cloud), a system that allows differently configured tag clouds to be compared side-by-side. It was developed to examine the feasibility of increasing the social awareness information provided by tag clouds. Results show that there is potential for improving the usefulness of tag clouds by including additional social awareness information in these clouds.