Working minds : a practitioner's guide to cognitive task analysis / Beth Crandall, Gary Klein, Robert R. Hoffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crandall, Beth, author.

Hoffman, Robert R., author.

Klein, Gary A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition.

Task analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 332 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2006]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) helps researchers understand how cognitive skills and strategies make it possible for people to act effectively and get things done. CTA can yield information people need-employers faced with personnel issues, market researchers who want to understand the thought processes of consumers, trainers and others who design instructional systems, health care professionals who want to apply lessons learned from errors and accidents, systems analysts developing user specifications, and many other professionals. CTA can show what makes the workplace work-and what keeps it from working as well as it might.

Working Minds is a true handbook, offering a set of tools for doing CTA: methods for collecting data about cognitive processes and events, analyzing them, and communicating them effectively. It covers both the "why" and the "how" of CTA methods, providing examples, guidance, and stories from the authors' own experiences as CTA practitioners. Because effective use of CTA depends on some conceptual grounding in cognitive theory and research-on knowing what a cognitive perspective can offer-the book also offers an overview of current research on cognition.

The book provides detailed guidance for planning and carrying out CTA, with chapters on capturing knowledge and capturing the way people reason. It discusses studying cognition in real-world settings and the challenges of rapidly changing technology. And it describes key issues in applying CTA findings in a variety of fields. Working Minds makes the methodology of CTA accessible and the skills involved attainable.

Contents:

2 Overview of Cognitive Task Analysis Methods 9

I Tools for Exploring Cognition in Context 27

3 Preparation and Framing 29

4 Using Concept Maps for Knowledge Elicitation and Representation 41

5 Incident-Based CTA: Helping Practitioners "Tell Stories" 69

6 CTA Methods and Experiment-Like Tasks 91

7 Analysis and Representation 107

II Finding Cognition 129

8 Thinking About Cognition 131

9 Trends and Themes in the Development of Cognitive Task Analysis: The Rise of Modern Cognitive Psychology 149

10 Information Technology 159

III Putting CTA Findings to Use 171

11 The Role of Cognitive Requirements in System Development 173

12 Cognitive Training 195

13 Understanding How Consumers Make Decisions: Using Cognitive Task Analysis for Market Research 215

14 Cognitive Task Analysis for Measurement and Evaluation 229

15 Future Directions for Cognitive Task Analysis 245

Appendix Guidance for Data Collection 259.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-313) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Crandall, Beth. Working minds.

ISBN:

9780262270922

0262270927

Access Restriction:

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