Getting our head in the clouds: toward evaluation studies of tagclouds
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Effects of structure and interaction style on distinct search tasks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
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
Backward highlighting: enhancing faceted search
Proceedings of the 21st annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Signpost from the masses: learning effects in an exploratory social tag search browser
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Semantically structured tag clouds: an empirical evaluation of clustered presentation approaches
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Exploratory Search
Role of available and provided resources in sensemaking
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Tag clouds and keyword clouds: evaluating zero-interaction benefits
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Tag clouds are typically presented so that users can actively utilize community-generated metadata to query a collection. This research investigates whether such metadata representations also provide passive support for sensemaking without any direct interaction. Previous work reported potentially significant results from a pilot study of three variations of keyword cloud support (interactive, non-interactive, and absent), built from related query terms. Our full study, however, found no significant differences in learning across the three conditions. We concluded that the sensemaking and learning mainly occurred outside of the search engine, where the keyword cloud no longer provided support. Our future work will study the passive support that may be provided by keyword clouds in more integrated systems like digital libraries.