Card sorting is an elicitation technique in which participants group labeled cards or items into categories, either self-defined (open sort) or predefined (closed sort). It reveals how people mentally organize concepts and is used in knowledge acquisition, user research, and team cognition studies.
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- DomainGroups & Decisions
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Related entries name an idea, effect or practice that belongs to a model or tool of the series. They are not models or tools themselves and are not counted as such; each one leads to the model or tool it comes from, and to its Executive Insight Brief.
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Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.