The Automated Card Sorting tool (AutoCardSorter) is an automated tool that supports the design and evaluation of the information architecture of information-rich applications, like most Web sites.

AutoCardSorter is inspired by the Card Sorting user method and employs semantic similarity measures (e.g. Latent Semantic Analysis – LSA) to calculate semantic similarity of different Web pages and clustering algorithms (e.g. Hierarchical Clustering) to cluster accordingly the information space. The tool also implements statistical approaches (e.g. Eigenvalue Analysis) to identify the best-fit number of top-level categories.

AutoCardSorter is aimed at providing the necessary flexibility and efficiency to the practitioners to design or evaluate the information architecture of a web site. Such an automated approach could substantially accelerate the design and evaluation lifecycle, by providing valuable insight and increasing the possibility to explore alternative designs for the structure of a web site.Other benefits include the support to non-technical content creators and multi-audience sites.

For related papers and to ask to try out the tool please visit http://hci.ece.upatras.gr/autocardsorter

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