The Impact of Semantic Context Cues on the User Acceptance of Tag Recommendations: An Online Study
This work addresses the problem of improving tag recommendation acceptance for users in collaborative environments, though it is incremental as it builds on existing research with a specific scenario.
The study investigated how semantic context cues affect user acceptance of tag recommendations, finding that these cues have a higher impact in collaborative tagging settings compared to individual ones, based on an online study with 17 university employees.
In this paper, we present the results of an online study with the aim to shed light on the impact that semantic context cues have on the user acceptance of tag recommendations. Therefore, we conducted a work-integrated social bookmarking scenario with 17 university employees in order to compare the user acceptance of a context-aware tag recommendation algorithm called 3Layers with the user acceptance of a simple popularity-based baseline. In this scenario, we validated and verified the hypothesis that semantic context cues have a higher impact on the user acceptance of tag recommendations in a collaborative tagging setting than in an individual tagging setting. With this paper, we contribute to the sparse line of research presenting online recommendation studies.