[Sigia-l] Card sorting

[Geoff Froh]

Rashmi Sinha did a nice session at Vancouver about the relationship between 
tagging and sorting exercises titled, "Sorting in an age of tagging: How 
Information Architects can use sorting to address just about any research 
question."

The abstract and slides are here:

http://www.iasummit.org/2006/conferencedescrip.htm#115

And Christian Crumlish has a good summary of the session here:

http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/social-information-architecture-sorting-and-tagging/

geoff


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Seth Earley" <seth at earley.com>
To: "'Donna Maurer'" <donna at maadmob.net>; <sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 8:47 AM
Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] Card sorting


> You would need to do another kind of exercise - tagging.  Split users into
> two groups.  Take representative content and ask one group to come up with
> terms that they would use if they were looking for the specific items. 
> Ask
> the other group to place terms on content that they would use to describe
> the content if they were applying metadata terms to the content.  Have 
> them
> compare results and see if the searchers are using the same (unambiguous)
> terms as the taggers.  Also see if there are multiple hits for a search 
> term
> and consider how to disambiguate those items. (Additional attributes, 
> etc.)
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf
> Of Donna Maurer
>
> You can't ;)
>
> That's where some smart IA uses their brain and 'designs' an IA rather 
> than
> relying on
> the outcomes of a single activity.
>
> Donna
>
> On 25 Apr 2006 at 19:35, Malahat Hosseini wrote:
>
>> I have a question:
>>
>> How can you make sure that the way people "sort " things is going to be
> the
>> same as how they will be "looking " for things?
>>
>> For instance I can see the case of someone putting everything that has 
>> the
>> word " information" in it in one category; but I am sure the same person
>> might not look for those items all in one category when faced with an
>> organized system...I wonder if I have been able to convey what I mean.
>>
>> I am curious to know how you  communicate this to people...
>>
> -- 
> Donna Maurer
> Maadmob Interaction Design
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