Context Visualization for Social Bookmark Management

TL;DR

This paper introduces GalViz, a social bookmark manager that visualizes tags, resources, and social context in an interactive network to improve user experience and effectiveness.

Contribution

It presents a novel visualization interface for social bookmarking that integrates social context and resource relationships in an interactive network.

Findings

Enhanced user understanding of social links

Improved navigation through visualized social context

Positive evaluation results from case study and log analysis

Abstract

We present the design of a new social bookmark manager, named GalViz, as part of the interface of the GiveA-Link system. Unlike the interfaces of traditional social tagging tools, which usually display information in a list view, GalViz visualizes tags, resources, social links, and social context in an interactive network, combined with the tag cloud. Evaluations through a scenario case study and log analysis provide evidence of the effectiveness of our design.