Conference Tagging

We just (finally) got human subjects approval for this research - so now I’d like to share a bit of it. At the Association of Internet Researchers conference in Chicago our class (8 grad students and our professor) promoted tags (aoir and aoir6) for the conference to aggregate information using Flickr, Technorati and delicious.

The conference had over 300 attendees. Below is the map of those who tagged content based on which service they used.

This graph may be slightly inaccurate since overlap is based only on the same username across services or a person’s actual name as associated with multiple user names, but it could only be mistaken in missing some overlap rather than showing too much.

Unfortunately the data about how many people from the conference browsed the content is unavailable except through the survey we conducted after the conference. I’ll followup with that data in my next post.