Signpost from the masses: Learning effects in an exploratory social tag search browser

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 625-634

  Kammerer, Yvonne ^a   Nairn, Rowan ^b   Pirolli, Peter ^b   Chi, Ed H ^b  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Exploratory interfaces; Social search; Social tagging

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY INTERFACES; EXPLORATORY SEARCH; LEARNING EFFECTS; RELEVANCE FEEDBACK; SOCIAL BOOKMARKING; SOCIAL SEARCH; SOCIAL TAGGING;

EXPERIMENTS; SCAFFOLDS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84892451209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518797     Document Type: Conference Paper

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