Why do people tag? Users have mostly avoided annotating media such as photos -- both in desktop and mobile environments -- despite the many potential uses for annotations, including recall and retrieval. We investigate the incentives for annotation in Flickr, a popular web-based photo-sharing system, and ZoneTag, a cameraphone photo capture and annotation tool that uploads images to Flickr. In Flickr, annotation (as textual tags) serves both personal and social purposes, increasing incentives for tagging and resulting in a relatively high number of annotations. ZoneTag, in turn, makes it easier to tag cameraphone photos that are uploaded to Flickr by allowing annotation and suggesting relevant tags immediately after capture.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 ames2007why
%A Ames, Morgan
%A Naaman, Mor
%B CHI '07: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems
%C New York, NY, USA
%D 2007
%I ACM
%K tagging motivation
%P 971--980
%R http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240624.1240772
%T Why we tag: motivations for annotation in mobile and online media
%U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1240624.1240772
%X Why do people tag? Users have mostly avoided annotating media such as photos -- both in desktop and mobile environments -- despite the many potential uses for annotations, including recall and retrieval. We investigate the incentives for annotation in Flickr, a popular web-based photo-sharing system, and ZoneTag, a cameraphone photo capture and annotation tool that uploads images to Flickr. In Flickr, annotation (as textual tags) serves both personal and social purposes, increasing incentives for tagging and resulting in a relatively high number of annotations. ZoneTag, in turn, makes it easier to tag cameraphone photos that are uploaded to Flickr by allowing annotation and suggesting relevant tags immediately after capture.
%@ 978-1-59593-593-9
@inproceedings{ames2007why,
abstract = {Why do people tag? Users have mostly avoided annotating media such as photos -- both in desktop and mobile environments -- despite the many potential uses for annotations, including recall and retrieval. We investigate the incentives for annotation in Flickr, a popular web-based photo-sharing system, and ZoneTag, a cameraphone photo capture and annotation tool that uploads images to Flickr. In Flickr, annotation (as textual tags) serves both personal and social purposes, increasing incentives for tagging and resulting in a relatively high number of annotations. ZoneTag, in turn, makes it easier to tag cameraphone photos that are uploaded to Flickr by allowing annotation and suggesting relevant tags immediately after capture.},
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address = {New York, NY, USA},
author = {Ames, Morgan and Naaman, Mor},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2a65cefd93890f99f0119da73ba18d392/dbenz},
booktitle = {CHI '07: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems},
description = {Why we tag},
doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1240624.1240772},
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isbn = {978-1-59593-593-9},
keywords = {tagging motivation},
location = {San Jose, California, USA},
pages = {971--980},
publisher = {ACM},
timestamp = {2013-07-31T15:39:42.000+0200},
title = {Why we tag: motivations for annotation in mobile and online media},
url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1240624.1240772},
year = 2007
}