| Working Minds: A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis Contributor(s): Crandall, Beth (Author), Klein, Gary A. (Author), Hoffman, Robert R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0262532816 ISBN-13: 9780262532815 Publisher: Bradford Book OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2006 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Assessment, Testing & Measurement - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
| Dewey: 153.4 |
| LCCN: 2005058030 |
| Series: Mit Press |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 7.04" W x 8.92" (1.25 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hoffman, Robert R.: - Robert R. Hoffman is Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, Florida.Crandall, Beth: - Beth Crandall is Senior Technical Director of the Klein Associates Division, Applied Research Associates.Klein, Gary: - Gary Klein is a Senior Scientist at Applied Research Associates. He is the author of Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions (1999) and the coauthor of Working Minds: A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis (2006), both published by the MIT Press.Klein, Gary A.: - Gary Klein is Senior Scientist at MacroCognition LLC. He is the author of The Power of Intuition, Seeing What Others Don't, Working Minds: A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis (with Beth Crandall and Robert R. Hoffman), and Streetlights and Shadows: Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision Making, the last two published by the MIT Press. |