Presents an innovative tool that supports design and evaluation of a Web site’s information architecture. A case study demonstrated that it can significantly reduce resources required to design information-rich applications. AutoCardSorter Video Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly_4GsOMWmU

1. AutoCardSorter: Designing the
Information Architecture of a Web Site
Using Latent Semantic Analysis
Christos Katsanos | ckatsanos@ece.upatras.gr
Nikolaos Tselios | nitse@ece.upatras.gr
Nikolaos Avouris | avouris@ece.upatras.gr
ACM SIGCHI | Florence, Italy | 5-10 April, 2008

2. Purpose Motivation
 Automate Structural Design of Information Spaces
 Increase efficiency and flexibility for practitioners
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3. Why it is important?
 Structural design greatly affects user
experience
 Current approaches (e.g. Card Sorting)
often neglected:
 Time constraints
 Cost to recruit users and run the studies
 Increased complexity for data analysis
 Challenging for large sites (>100 pages)
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