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

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Robert R. Hoffman, Laura G. Militello

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Robert R Hoffman, Robert R. Hoffman, Robert R. (Institute for Human and Machin Hoffman, Robert R. (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Hoffman, Robert R. Militello Hoffman, Hoffman Robert R., Laura G Militello, Laura G. Militello, Laura G. (University of Dayton Research Institute Militello, Militello Laura G.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2014
• EAN: 9781138004283
• ISBN: 978-1-138-00428-3
• No. of pages: 538
• Series: Expertise: Research and Applications Series; Expertise: Research and Applications Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology