[Sigia-l] card sorting: dealing with multiple placements

[Sean Lawerence]

So who would you reccomend?  I've seen design majors in this role most often
who think they are qualified because they read a book on ethnography?
Having a background in psych, I am aware of the nature of behavioral
research and I would say that the relevance to performing user-tests is the
granularity of the results you are expecting.  If you are looking to get a
very precise result (a=0.5) through statistical analysis, then yes a
behavioral or statistical background would be appropriate.  If you are
trying to complie users responses to an interaction to establish a baseline,
perhaps someone with MLIS or a design background would suffice.

my 2 cents and claiming no level of authority in the matter,

Sean

> This course is about "LIS research" Michael ("questions in library and
> information science"), and has very little relevance to performing
> user-tests and/or conducting user-research (beyond glossing over some
> techniques).