%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.}, added-at = {2011-02-08T15:56:16.000+0100}, 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}, interhash = {bd24c17d66d2b904b3fc9444c2b64b44}, intrahash = {a65cefd93890f99f0119da73ba18d392}, 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 }