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Two social-bookmarking studies: recommendation and tag-based ranking


 
  
The GiveALink.org project invites you to participate in two online user studies related to tag recommendation and tag-based ranking.


GiveALink The GiveALink.org project invites you to participate in two online user studies related to tag recommendation and tag-based ranking. Below are details of each study. We would greatly appreciate it if you would participate in both studies, or in either one of them. Each study will take around 20 minutes of your time - but you can help a lot even in a few minutes.

Recommending Tags in Social Tagging Systems (IRB study #0910000746)

We invite volunteers to participate in a research study testing techniques for selecting recommended tags in social bookmarking systems. Participants will be asked to assess the relevance and usefulness of tags suggested for urls in the GiveALink.org system.

To participate, users need to have an account with GiveALink.org. If you do not have an account you will need to first create one, and then import bookmarks to the new account from your browser or an existing Delicious account. Though users need to be logged in to participate in the study, the data collected is anonymized.

If you wish to participate in this study, and you already have a GiveALink.org account with bookmarks, please visit the experiment page by clicking on the link below, where you will find an informed consent form:

www.givealink.org/study/consent

If you do not have a GiveALink.org account, please go to this page to register:

givealink.org/account/new

After registration, please go to this page and follow instructions to import some bookmarks (#1 or #2 under 'Ways to Share'):

givealink.org/donation/show

After importing bookmarks, please visit the experiment page by clicking on the link below:

www.givealink.org/study/consent

Ranking Web Search Results (IRB study #05-10454)

We invite volunteers to participate in a research study testing techniques to rank pages on the Web related to a search query. Participants will be asked to assess results for search queries. This study is completely anonymous.

If you wish to participate in this study, please visit the experiment page by clicking on the link below, where you will find an informed consent form:

www.givealink.org/study/searchstudy_consent

Thank you in advance for your participation and support!

  • Heather Roinestad, PhD student
  • Vivek Krishna, MS student
  • Filippo Menczer, Associate Professor
School of Informatics & Computing
Indiana University, Bloomington

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