We describe an experiment investigating how tagging
affects human memory. We compare a low-cost tagging by
mouse-clicking interface (Click2Tag) to traditional tagging
by typing and to a baseline, no tagging condition. Our
results suggest that tagging is beneficial for memory.
However, the two tagging methods impact distinct aspects
of memory: tagging by typing promotes elaboration of read
contents and, thus, enhances free recall, whereas tagging by
clicking strengthens the memory traces by repeated
readings of relevant words in the text and, thus, improves
recognition of facts from the text.
%0 Book Section
%1 budiu_2009
%A Budiu, Raluca
%A Pirolli, Peter
%A Hong, Lichan
%B CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems
%C New York, NY, USA
%D 2009
%I ACM
%K cognitive_models experiment memory tagging
%P 615--624
%R http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518796
%T Remembrance of things tagged: how tagging effort affects tag production and human memory
%U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518796
%X We describe an experiment investigating how tagging
affects human memory. We compare a low-cost tagging by
mouse-clicking interface (Click2Tag) to traditional tagging
by typing and to a baseline, no tagging condition. Our
results suggest that tagging is beneficial for memory.
However, the two tagging methods impact distinct aspects
of memory: tagging by typing promotes elaboration of read
contents and, thus, enhances free recall, whereas tagging by
clicking strengthens the memory traces by repeated
readings of relevant words in the text and, thus, improves
recognition of facts from the text.
%@ 978-1-60558-246-7
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abstract = {We describe an experiment investigating how tagging
affects human memory. We compare a low-cost tagging by
mouse-clicking interface (Click2Tag) to traditional tagging
by typing and to a baseline, no tagging condition. Our
results suggest that tagging is beneficial for memory.
However, the two tagging methods impact distinct aspects
of memory: tagging by typing promotes elaboration of read
contents and, thus, enhances free recall, whereas tagging by
clicking strengthens the memory traces by repeated
readings of relevant words in the text and, thus, improves
recognition of facts from the text.},
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title = {Remembrance of things tagged: how tagging effort affects tag production and human memory},
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