Why do tagging systems work?

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 36-39

  Furnas, George W ^a   Fake, Caterina ^b   Von Ahn, Luis ^c   Schachter, Joshua ^d   Golder, Scott ^e   Fox, Kevin ^f   Davis, Marc ^g   Marlow, Cameron ^g   Naaman, Mor ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b YAHOO INC   (United States)

^c Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^d Delicious Inc   (United States)

^e HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^f GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^g YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Del.icio.us; Design guidelines; Flickr; Social software; Tagging

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; DEL.ICIO.US; FLICKR; MASS ADOPTION; SOCIAL MODELS; SOCIAL SOFTWARE; TAGGING; TAGGING SYSTEMS; VIDEO SEGMENTS; WIRELESS LAPTOPS;

EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; LAPTOP COMPUTERS;

THESAURI;

EID: 84869139468     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1125451.1125462     Document Type: Conference Paper

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