Tag Cloud

A tag cloud presents a certain number of most often used tags in a defined area of the user interface. A tag's popularity is expressed by its font size (relative to the other tags) and is therefore easily recognized. Sometimes, further visual properties, such as the font color, intensity, or weight, are manipulated [...]. Next to their visualization function, tag clouds are also navigation interfaces as the tags are usually hyperlinks leading to a collection of items they are associated with.

[Lohmann et al., 2009]

External Links

http://www.socialtagging.org Social Tagging and Folksonomies - Some Definitions

References

• [Lohmann et al., 2009]: S. Lohmann, J. Ziegler, L. Tetzlaff, Comparison of Tag Cloud Layouts: Task-Related Performance and Visual Exploration, Proceedings of INTERACT 2009, LNCS 5726, pp. 392–404, 2009.