These are various things I’ve written in relation to my PhD.
This paper details research I conducted on whether tag clouds are useful as information seeking tools. I am also required to show the following text:
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This is my mid-term review paper, written in March 2006. It describes all the research I had done to that point. It talks about categorisation at the cognitive and contextual levels, and describes why I want to investigate the use of folksonomies for knolwedge management systems. There is also a print-formatted version (PDF) that I think looks rather pretty.
This is a conference paper written for Bali OSCM, 2005. It details the results from an experiment I conducted comparing user-interfaces used for categorisation. Print-formatted version (PDF)
This was my original PhD proposal. Things have changed quite significantly since I wrote it. Also in print-formatted version (PDF)