Tags And Usability

I found an interesting paper that tested a tag-based interface in banking. The researchers hypothesized that the usability of the tag-based interface would be higher (better) than the usability of the current, conventional interface of a banking application.

Here is the paper:

Usability Evaluation of a Tag-Based Interface
By: Rajinesh Ravendran, Ian MacColl, Michael Docherty
https://uxpajournal.org/usability-evaluation-of-a-tag-based-interface/

For the tag-based interface, users would be able to enter/select tags for their banking transactions. This is a form of customization. When the user clicks on a tag, information associated with the banking transaction will be retrieved.
The conventional interface had the regular dropdowns, checkboxes, and so on.

The researchers found that the tag-based user interface would improve user satisfaction.


It is interesting that tagging could be used in this way. I like tagging - I try to add appropriate tags to my blog posts. To retrieve posts on a particular topic, the tag could be used. For example, to view posts on happiness in my blog (the blogspot blog at https://fahmeenaodetta.blogspot.com/), you could scroll down to the labels and then select happiness. The website would then provide all posts tagged happiness - using url https://fahmeenaodetta.blogspot.com/search/label/happiness.

Sometimes, it is difficult to find what you're looking for. For example, I know there is a post in my blog that is related to my recent Throwback Thursday post:


#ThrowbackThursday

Remembering those days in the computer lab at my apartment community in Gainesville, FL. I prepared lots of PhD papers in that lab.

Here is one of my videos of the lab:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z8pisPmox8k

I have a few more videos showing the computer screen as I type up an assignment.


Looking through the tags, I don't see lab or apartment or video. I can use the search box instead. Searching by keyword 'lab' returns the post I am interesting in:
https://fahmeenaodetta.blogspot.com/2022/06/paper-on-real-time-systems.html
It is tagged: fahmeenaodetta, realtimesystems, starbucks