Using Card Sorting to Design Faceted Navigation Structures

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Conference theme: Post-pandemic HCI – Living Digitally

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Keywords: Requirements Elicitation, Card Sorting, Information Architecture, Faceted Navigation, User-Centered Design (UCD), User Experience (UXD, UX)

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[1] J.J. Aucouturier & F. Pachet (2003). Representing musical genre: A state of the art. Journal of New Music Research, 32,1: 83-93.

[2] O. Ben-Yitzhak, N. Golbandi, N. Har'El, R. Lempel, A. Neumann, S. Ofek-Koifman, D. Sheinwald, E. Shekita, B. Sznajder & S. Yogev (2008). Beyond basic faceted search. In Proceedings of the international conference on Web search and web data mining, 33-44.

[3] N. Bevan (2003). UsabilityNet methods for user centred design. Human-Computer Interaction: theory and Practice 1. APA.

[4] B. Cassidy, S. Saurabh Antani & J. Read (2013). Using an open card sort with children to categorize games in a mobile phone application store. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2287-2290.

[5] C. Courage & K. Baxter (2005). Understanding your users: a practical guide to user requirements: methods, tools, and techniques. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

[6] E. de Quincey (2010). Software support for comparison of media across domains. Ph.D. Dissertation, Keele University, UK.

[7] K. Deibel, R. Anderson & R. Anderson (2005). Using edit distance to analyze card sorts. Expert Systems, 22,3: 129-138.

[8] T. DeNora (2000). Music in everyday life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

[9] K. Frederickson-Mele (1997). Usability Testing an Intranet Prototype Shell: A Case Study. In Proceedings of SIGCHI 1997.

[10] J.G. Gammack (1987). Different Techniques and Different Aspects of Declarative Knowledge. In Knowledqe Acquisition for Expert Systems. New York: Plenum Press, 137-163.

[11] S. Gerrard & J. Dickinson (2005). Women's working wardrobes: a study using card sorts. Expert Systems, 22,3: 108-114.

[12] S. Golder & B. Huberman (2005). The structure of collaborative tagging systems. HP Labs Technical Report.

[13] A. Greasley & A. Lamont (2006). Music preference in adulthood: Why do we like the music we do. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.

[14] W. Hudson (2014). Card sorting for navigation design. In CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1007-1008.

[15] J. Joyce (2006). Pandora and the Music Genome Project. Scientific Computing, 23,10: 40-1.

[16] M. Kipp (2007). @toread and cool: Tagging for time, task and emotion. In Proceedings Information Architecture Summit 2007.

[17] M. Kipp & D.G. Campbell (2006). Patterns and inconsistencies in collaborative tagging systems: An examination of tagging practices. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 43,1.

[18] S. Lippens, J-P. Martens, & T. De Mulder (2004). A comparison of human and automatic musical genre classification. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2004 (ICASSP'04), 4.

[19] N. Maiden (2009). Card Sorts to Acquire Requirements. IEEE Software, 26,3: 85-86.

[20] G. Martine & G. Rugg (2005). That site looks 88.46% familiar: quantifying similarity of Web page design. Expert Systems, 22,3: 115-120.

[21] C. McKay (2010). Automatic music classification with jMIR. Ph.D. Dissertation, McGill University, Canada.

[22] Y. Nakhimovsky, R. Schusteritsch & K. Rodden (2006). Scaling the card sort method to over 500 items: restructuring the Google AdWords help center. In CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '06). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 183-188.

[23] J. Nielsen (1992). The usability engineering life cycle. Computer, 25,3: 12-22.

[24] J. Nielsen & R. Molich (1990). Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Empowering People (CHI '90). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 249-256.

[25] A.C. North, D.J. Hargreaves & S.A. O'Neill (2000). The importance of music to adolescents. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 70,2: 255-272.

[26] D. O’Neill (2013).Retrieved September 16, 2016, from http://id3.org/

[27] F. Pachet & D. Cazaly (2000). A taxonomy of musical genres. In Proceedings of Content- Based Multimedia Information Access (RIAO), 1238-1245.

[28] S.R. Ranganathan (1962). Elements of library classification. Bombay: Asia Publishing House.

[29] G. RuggC. Corbridge, N. Major & A. Burton (1992). A comparison of sorting techniques in knowledge acquisition. Knowledge Acquisition, 4,3: 279-291.

[30] G. Rugg & P. McGeorge (1997). The sorting techniques: a tutorial paper on card sorts, picture sorts and item sorts. Expert Systems, 14,2: 80-93.

[31] K. Sanders, S. FincherD. Bouvier, G. Lewandowski, B. Morrison, L. Murphy, M. Petreet al. (2005). A multi-institutional, multinational study of programming concepts using card sort data. Expert Systems, 22,3: 121-128.

[32] E. Scheirer (1998). Tempo and beat analysis of acoustic musical signals. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 103,1: 588-601.

[33] J. Sloboda, S.A. O'Neill & A. Ivaldi (2001). Functions of music in everyday life: An exploratory using the experience sampling method. Musicae Scientiae, 5,1: 9-32.

[34] D. Spencer & T. Warfel (2009). Card Sorting: A Definitive Guide. Retrieved January 18, 2016, from http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/card_sorting_a_definitive_guide.

[35] T. Tullis (1985). Designing a menu-based interface to an operating system. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 16,4: 79-84.

[36] T. Tullis (2003). Using Card-sorting Techniques to Organize Your Intranet. Intranet Journal of Strategy and Management, March 2003.

[37] T. Tullis & L. Wood (2004). How Many Users Are Enough for a Card-Sorting Study? In Proceedings of the UPA 2004 Conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Jun-2004.

[38] L. Upchurch, G. Rugg & B. Kitchenham (2001). Using card sorts to elicit web page quality attributes. IEEE Software, 18,4: 84-9.

[39] Usability.gov. (N.D.). User-Centered Design Process Map. Retrieved September 16, 2016, from http://www.usability.gov/how-to-and-tools/resources/ucd-map.html.

[40] C. Wharton, J. Rieman, C. Lewis & P. Polson (1994). The cognitive walkthrough method: A practitioner's guide. In Usability Inspection Methods, J. Nielsen and R. L. Mack, eds. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 105-140

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