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on 2006-07-25 by billso

How does tagging help users organize their online resources?

on 2006-07-26 by quasar

A cognitive analysis of tagging (or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular)

on 2006-07-27 by davemorehouse

Good blog post by Raishmi Sinha differentiating tagging as a cognitive behavior from categorization.

on 2006-09-03 by adubber

Understanding how tagging works part 1...

on 2006-10-25 by sentience

or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular

on 2007-07-31 by bmevans

The rapid growth of tagging(1)in the last year is testament to how easy and enjoyable people find the tagging process. The question is how to explain it at the cognitive level. In search for a cognitive explanation of tagging, I went back to my dusty cognitive psychology textbooks. This is what I learnt.

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A cognitive analysis of tagging

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in fact, one purpose that tagging serves is transmitting cultural knowledge about our constantly evolving digital lives.

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In the digital world, we don't just categorize an object, we also optimize its future findability. We need to consider not just the most likely category, but also where we are most likely to look for the item at the time of finding. These two questions might lead to conflicting answers, and complicate the categorization process.

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The brilliance of Gmail was to separate the tagging from the archiving.

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about tagging - it provides immediate self and social feedback. Each tag tells you a little about what you are interested in.

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To conclude, the beauty of tagging is that it taps into an existing cognitive process without adding add much cognitive cost. At the cognitive level, people already make local, conceptual observations. Tagging decouples these conceptual observations from concerns about the overall categorical scheme. The challenge for tagging systems is to then do what the brain does - intelligent computation to make sense of these local observations, and an efficient, predictable way to ensure findability.

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To conclude, the beauty of tagging is that it taps into an existing cognitive process without adding add much cognitive cost

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A cognitive analysis of tagging

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A cognitive analysis of tagging

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A cognitive analysis of tagging (or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular)

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What follows is Rashmi's theory of tagging - my hypothesis about the cognitive process that kicks into place when we tag an item, and how this differs than the process of categorizing. In doing so, my hope is to explain the increasing popularity of tagging, and offer some ideas regarding the design of tagging / categorization systems. My ideas are mostly based on my observations about how people tag and relating it to on academic research in cognitive psychology and anthropology.

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At the start, let me confess that I struggled with this topic. From my first encounter with tagging (on systems such as del.icio.us & flickr), I could feel how easy it was to tag. But it took me a while to understand the cognitive processes at work. What follows is Rashmi's theory of tagging - my hypothesis about the cognitive process that kicks into place when we tag an item, and how this differs than the process of categorizing. In doing so, my hope is to explain the increasing popularity of tagging, and offer some ideas regarding the design of tagging / categorization systems.

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At the start, let me confess that I struggled with this topic. From my first encounter with tagging (on systems such as del.icio.us & flickr), I could feel how easy it was to tag. But it took me a while to understand the cognitive processes at work. What follows is Rashmi's theory of tagging - my hypothesis about the cognitive process that kicks into place when we tag an item, and how this differs than the process of categorizing. In doing so, my hope is to explain the increasing popularity of tagging, and offer some ideas regarding the design of tagging / categorization systems.

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A cognitive analysis of tagging

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(or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular)

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how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular

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Rashmi's theory of tagging

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What follows is Rashmi's theory of tagging

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on 2008-03-09 by vincent

"Rashmi's theory of tagging" --- any idea?

the cognitive process that kicks into place

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The rapid growth of tagging(1)in the last year is testament to how easy and enjoyable people find the tagging process. The question is how to explain it at the cognitive level. In search for a cognitive explanation of tagging,

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The rapid growth of tagging

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cognitive level.

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In the digital world, we don't just categorize an object, we also optimize its future findability

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This is a basic cognitive process - putting things into categories

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In my opinion, tagging eliminates the decision - (choosing the right category), and takes away the analysis-paralysis stage for most people.

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it provides immediate self and social feedback. Each tag tells you a little about what you are interested in. And you find out the social context for that bit of self-knowledge.

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taps into an existing cognitive process without adding add much cognitive cost.

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The brilliance of Gmail was to separate the tagging from the archiving

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