Tagscape: Navigating the Tag Landscape

Recent years have seen an explosion in online collaborative tagging, the most prevalent visualization of which are tag clouds. Despite their popularity, tag clouds suffer from limitations of separation from tagged items, lack of relational information between tags and a less-than-fully interactive experience. In this paper we introduce Tagscape, a tag system interface that attempts to address these issues. Tagscape uses a magnet analogy to represent relationships between tags and tagged items as attractions and repulsions. Preliminary informal evaluations of the interface were positive and revealed avenues for future work.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: INTERACT
• Authors: Lauren Haynes, Aylin Selcukoglu, Sunah Suh, Karrie Karahalios
• Keywords: Human Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2007, Preliminary Informal Evaluations, Prevalent Visualization, Tag Clouds