The 32 Days of Christmas

Frank R. Bentley, Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye, David A. Shamma, John Alexis Guerra-Gomez
2016 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '16  
Temporal terms, such as 'winter', 'Christmas', or 'January' are often used in search queries for personal images. But how do people's memories and perceptions of time match with the actual dates when their images were captured? We compared the temporal terms that 74 Flickr users used to search their own photo collections, and compared them to the date captured data in the target image. We also conducted a larger study across several billion images, comparing userapplied tags for holidays and
more » ... sons to the dates the images were captured. We demonstrate that various query terms and tags can be in conflict with the actual dates photos were taken for specific types of temporal terms up to 40% of the time. We will conclude by highlighting implications for search systems where users are querying for personal content by date.
doi:10.1145/2858036.2858255 dblp:conf/chi/BentleyKSG16 fatcat:lfoa6riounebbiv2d447zgetpe