Searching for the Unknown: How Your Surroundings Help You Find Things

Searching with Tags: Do Tags Help Users Find Things?

This pilot study examines the question of whether tags can be useful in the process of information retrieval. Participants searched a social bookmarking tool specialising in academic articles (CiteULike) and an online journal database (Pubmed). Participant actions were captured using screen capture software and they were asked to describe their search process. Users did make use of tags in thei...

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Can Social Tags Help You Find What You Want?

One of the uses of social tagging is to associate freely selected terms (tags) to resources for sharing resources among tag consumers. This enables tag consumers to locate new resources through the collective intelligence of other tag creators, and offers a new avenue for resource discovery. This paper investigates the effectiveness of tags as resource descriptors determined through the use of ...

A cone can help you find your way in a Poisson Delaunay triangulation

Walking strategies are a standard tool for point location in a triangulation of size n. Although often claimed to be Θ( √ n ) under random distribution hypotheses, this conjecture has only been formally proved by Devroye, Lemaire, and Moreau [Comp Geom–Theor Appl, vol. 29, 2004], in the case of the so called straight walk which has the very specific property that deciding whether a given (Delau...

Can Your Friends Help You to Find Interesting Multimedia Content on Web 2.0?

Social tagging constitutes one of the defining characteristics of Web 2.0 as it allows users to collectively classify and find diverse resources, such as Web pages, songs or pictures, using open-ended tags. The data structures underlying these systems, also known as folksonomies, suffered an explosive growth on account of the widespread success of social tagging. Thus, it is becoming increasing...