A Study of Amateur Photographer's Image Tagging behavior in Photo Sharing Website

[[abstract]]This study mainly used two research methods: content analysis and semi-structured interview. Based on the data set crawled from Flickr, we conducted a set of interviews with 8 people. Four of our participants were male, four female, with an age range of 20 to 40. Seven of them were office workers with high education and income, and one was student. This study collected 112,463 photos and 11,284 tags to assess participants’ typically types of tags. The interviews were helped us to understand participants’ image tagging motivation and usage. In addition, the participants would be conducted to actual operation and instructions for immediately observed. Finally, this study provided the suggestions of improving personal tags management and social functions.