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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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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 a… More >>
Working Minds: A Practitioner’s Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis
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#1 by Fung Chorng Yuan on January 26, 2010 - 3:13 am
A great book for all CTA practitioners and researchers. If you are thinking of doing CTA as your thesis, this is a book that you must have!
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Steven J. Taylor on January 26, 2010 - 5:38 am
I have only glanced through the book so far, but am impressed with the few passages I viewed. Cognitive task analysis may seem a simple process until it is undertaken and then the micro-detail is encountered. This book looks to explore the micro-detail and explain the fundamentals of CTA.
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by J. Aceti on January 26, 2010 - 6:23 am
Very interesting read. As a person involved in creating educational content the question always presents itself – how do we know we have extracted the necessary and essential knowedlge from the domain expert. Which begs the questions how do you go about extracting that informantion. Working Minds helps one understand the latest thoughts on these issues.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by John McGuirl on January 26, 2010 - 8:23 am
Just like the skilled behavior researchers try to study, being able to conduct a good Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA) is a critical skill in itself. Up until now, it was also one that had to be developed by trial and error. This text breaks it all down and provides a wealth of details on the techniques used and challenges faced in conducting a CTA. It also provides some historical context on the study of cognition and the role of CTA in research and system design.
Highly recommended for anyone in the field – I only wish it had come out sooner.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Freville on January 26, 2010 - 10:57 am
This is an important book for the engineering of complex systems and information technology systems. Cognitive systems engineering methods described in this book can go a long way toward helping engineers overcome the pervasive problem of inadequate requirements in the development of these systems, unite human and technology concerns in system design, and produce systems that are usable and helpful.
The book makes cognitive systems engineering and its methods much more accessible and comprehensible than any resource I’ve previously encountered. The book makes the methods described accessible to the novice who has never used them, while also providing details of interest to people who have experience using the methods. For example, it includes a very practical, descriptive, and well-organized walk-through of the cognitive task analysis process that extends from preparation all the way through to its contributions to system design and evaluation.
The book also includes a primer on cognition geared toward the systems developer and which is arguably an important foundation for anyone involved in developing technology that interacts with people performing cognitive work (e.g., information processing, decision making, anomaly detection, troubleshooting,…). The book addresses cost factors associated with cognitive task analysis and other cognitive systems engineering methods (and describes what cognitive systems engineering is and is not – thank you!) throughout, and is full of examples used to demonstrate how cognitive systems engineering methods have been successfully used in the past.
Every systems, human factors, and software engineering student and practitioner needs to read this book!!
Rating: 5 / 5