The Ethnographic Explorer (TEE) can be used to:
- Elicit people’s knowledge about a given set of cases (sets of people / places / objects / events / ideas), using an online version of a reiterated card sorting exercise known as Hierarchical Card Sorting.
- Query that structured knowledge, through a sequence of binary comparison questions.
- Explore the relationships between the results of two or more of those queries, using scatter plots and relationship measures.
- Download sort and query results, including if-then prediction rules, describing what configurations of case attributes are associated with the presence of another attribute.
TEE has two web pages:
- Settings: Where the parameters of a TEE exercise are set up by an exercise Facilitator.
- Sort & Compare & Contrast: Where one or more Participants answer questions and where they and others can explore the responses to date. The questions are of two types:
- Sorting questions.
- Comparison questions about sort results.
- Contrast: Where anyone can explore the relationships between different comparisons.
Each page has save/download/reload options
Next…
- To find out more, go to the Help pages.
- To register as a user (facilitator or participant)
- To design an exercise, click on Settings .
- To observe or participate in an exercise, click on Sort & Compare.

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