Card Sorting Project
Card Sorting Project is an Open Source Web Application sponsored by SAPO SummerBits 2009 It is a tool for creation and analysis of online card sorting tests. The usage of this tool permits to better understand how a web interface should be organized to better meet the users expectations.
What is Card Sorting?
Card sorting is a technique used for data organization, and that can be used for different tasks, from psychology to usability studies.
The common (physical) approach consists on writing words on cards (one word per card), where each word represents a concept. Then, the user (or individual, talking on statistics terms) is invited to organize the cards accordingly to his understanding of the concepts represented.
The individual can be asked to organize the concepts in different ways, depending on the study objectives. For instance, they can be asked to sort the cards by concepts of proximity, to create groups of similar concepts, or to create a tree (hierarchy of concepts). You can find more definitions for card sorting here.
Objective
The main objective for this project is the creation of a web system to perform these kind of (card sorting) studies virtually.
Project Links
- Trac: http://softwarelivre.sapo.pt/cardsorting
- Source[SVN]: svn://svn.softwarelivre.sapo.pt/cardsorting
- Mailing-List: http://listas.softwarelivre.sapo.pt/mailman/listinfo/cardsorting
- Blog: http://labs.sapo.pt/summerbits/cardsorting/
- Live Application: http://cardsorting.ensinolivre.pt/
License
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Portugal License
Schedule
A roadmap can be consulted here.
Team
- Guiding: Alberto Simões
- Student: Miguel Regedor
Technologies
To create this Web Aplication we have chosen the Ruby on Rails framework and also some ruby related technologies for testing, and to insure the correction of the code. We are using jQuery to make the card sorting tests interface with "AJAX style".