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Card sorting

Card sorting is a knowledge elicitation technique that involves participants sorting items according to some given criteria. This is done to determine how participants categorize items in a given domain and to identify similarities and differences between groups of participants. Card sorting is typically used as a research method in user experience…

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Card sorting

Nodes29
Edges28
Triples40
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.068966
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related to Further reading · 28
Card sorting → Analysis, Anthony Peter Macmillan, Can Card Sorting Improve, Collection, Coxon, Dam, Design Instruct, Google Books, Hudson, Human-Computer Interaction, In Soegaard, Interaction Design Foundation, ISBN, ISSN, Mads, May, Quantitative Applications, Rikke Friis, SAGE, Sergey
related to Reverse card sorting · 5
Card sorting → Each, In, Reverse, This, Users
related to Analysis · 4
Card sorting → Broadly, The, There, This
is a · 2
Card sorting → established technique with an emerging literature, knowledge elicitation technique that involves participants sorting items according to some given criteria
related to Online (remote) card sorting · 1
Card sorting → The

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Card sortingis aestablished technique with an emerging literature0.90text
Card sortingrelated to AnalysisThe0.60section
Card sortingrelated to AnalysisThis0.60section
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Card sortingrelated to AnalysisBroadly0.60section
Card sortingrelated to Further readingCoxon0.60section
Card sortingrelated to Further readingAnthony Peter Macmillan0.60section
Card sortingrelated to Further readingSorting Data0.60section
Card sortingrelated to Further readingCollection0.60section
Card sortingrelated to Further readingAnalysis0.60section
Card sortingrelated to Further readingQuantitative Applications0.60section

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