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July 2006
7 x 9, 346 pp., 26 illus.
$26.95/£19.95 (PAPER)
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0-262-53281-6
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-53281-5

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Working Minds
A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis
Beth Crandall, Gary Klein and Robert R. Hoffman

Prefacevii
Acknowledgmentsxi
1.Introduction1
2.Overview of Cognitive Task Analysis Methods9
I.Tools for Exploring Cognition in Context27
3.Preparation and Framing29
4.Using Concept Maps for Knowledge Elicitation and Representation41
5.Incident-Based CTA: Helping Practitioners "Tell Stories"69
6.CTA Methods and Experiment-Like Tasks91
7.Analysis and Representation107
II.Finding Cognition129
8.Thinking about Cognition131
9.Trends and Themes in the Development of Cognitive Task Analysis: The Rise of Modern Cognitive Psychology149
10.Information Technology159
III.Putting CTA Findings to Use171
11.The Role of Cognitive Requirements in System Development173
12.Cognitive Training195
13.Understanding How Consumers Make Decisions: Using Cognitive Task Analysis for Market Research215
14.Cognitive Task Analysis for Measurement and Evaluation229
15.Future Directions for Cognitive Task Analysis245
Appendix: Guidance for Data Collection259
Notes283
References287
Index315
 
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