TY - GEN
T1 - Content Analysis of Social Tags Generated by Health Consumers
AU - Joo, Soohyung
AU - Choi, Yunseon
PY - 2015/6/21
Y1 - 2015/6/21
N2 - This poster presents preliminary findings of user tag analysis in the domain of consumer health information. To obtain user terms, 36,205 tags from 38 consumer health information sites were collected from delicious.com. Content analysis was applied to identify the dimensions and types of the collected tags. The preliminary findings showed that user generated tags covers a variety of aspects of health information, ranging from general terms, subject terms, knowledge type, and to audience. General terms and subject terms were observed dominantly by showing 31.7% and 22.8% respectively.
AB - This poster presents preliminary findings of user tag analysis in the domain of consumer health information. To obtain user terms, 36,205 tags from 38 consumer health information sites were collected from delicious.com. Content analysis was applied to identify the dimensions and types of the collected tags. The preliminary findings showed that user generated tags covers a variety of aspects of health information, ranging from general terms, subject terms, knowledge type, and to audience. General terms and subject terms were observed dominantly by showing 31.7% and 22.8% respectively.
KW - consumer health information
KW - qualitative analysis
KW - social tagging
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U2 - 10.1145/2756406.2756959
DO - 10.1145/2756406.2756959
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84951954702
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
SP - 249
EP - 250
BT - JCDL 2015 - Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE-CE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Y2 - 21 June 2015 through 25 June 2015
ER -