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The Card Sorting method is widely used to obtain a structure on a group of ideas that are not in order, and it is frequently used to obtain the underlying structure of a set of items for a web menu. The manual analysis of the sessions can result in a tedious job for the moderator. On the other hand, there are a lot of computer applications to obtain the data, but none for the whole data analysis. For these reasons the Usability Laboratory of Walqa decided to develop a tool to automate the whole process as far as possible. This paper explains how aCaSo works, a tool that allows the gathering of information through conducting Card Sorting experiments by the users, the analysis that follows with various existing statistical algorithms, the outlook of results and the creation of reports. Also a typical session, the process of verification of results and the final conclusions are detailed. Beforehand the different existing methods for data analysis are revised and the selection of the ones that are finally implemented is justified.
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Lapena, E.L., Tobar, L.M., Andrés, P.L. (2009). aCaSo: A Card Sorting Management & Analysis Tool. In: Redondo, M., Bravo, C., Ortega, M. (eds) Engineering the User Interface. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-136-7_17
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