Research Prototypes
Research prototypes are a way to make ideas about information access tangible and test how people might use them. During my PhD research at the University of Amsterdam and my applied research at Yahoo! Labs, I developed prototypes for searching within structured documents, finding relevant passages, annotating photos, and browsing image collections through tags. These projects connect research questions in information retrieval with working interfaces and systems.
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Fannr: Flickr Annotator
Fannr was a prototype that helped Flickr users annotate photos by recommending tags and possible locations, drawing on their own photos and wider photo collections.
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TagExplorer
TagExplorer was a Yahoo! Research prototype for browsing Flickr photos through semantically organized tag clouds, combining work on tag recommendation and tag classification.
