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Perspectives on Cognitive Task Analysis: Historical Origins and Modern Communities of Practice book cover

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Perspectives on Cognitive Task Analysis Historical Origins and Modern Communities of Practice

By Robert R. Hoffman, Laura G. Militello Copyright 2009
538 Pages
by Psychology Press

538 Pages
by Psychology Press

500 Pages
by Psychology Press
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This volume is the first comprehensive history of task analysis, charting its origins from the earliest applied psychology through to modern forms of task analysis that focus on the study of cognitive work. Through this detailed historical analysis, it is made apparent how task analysis has always been cognitive. Chapters cover the histories, key ideas, and contributions to... Read more

Part 1. History.  1. Introduction to Section 1: History.  2. A History of Task Analysis.  3. Evolution of Task Analysis into Cognitive Task Analysis: From Time and Motion Studies to "Man-Machine Systems".  4. Defining and Bounding Cognitive Task Analysis.  5. Emergence of the Communities of Practice.  Part 2. The "Perspectives".  6. Introduction to Section 2: The "Perspectives".  7. Cognitive Systems Engineering.  8. Expertise Studies.  9. Naturalistic Decision Making.  10. Work Analysis.  11. Sociological and Ethnographic Perspectives.  12. Human-Centered Computing.  Part 3. Synthesis.  13. Introduction to Section 3: Synthesis.  14. Synthesis: Divergences of the Perspectives.  15. Synthesis: Convergences of the Perspectives.  16. Synthesis: Convergence on The Topic of Teamwork and Team Cognition.  17. Synthesis: Methodological Challenges for Cognitive Task Analysis.

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Robert R. Hoffman, Laura G. Militello

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