Working Minds by Beth Crandall - ISBN: 9780262532815
Paperback
How to collect data about cognitive processes and events, how to analyze CTA findings, and how to communicate them effectively: a handbook for managers, trainers, systems analysts, market researchers, health professionals, and others.

Working Minds

A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis

  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    7 July 2006

Summary

How to collect data about cognitive processes and events, how to analyze CTA findings, and how to communicate them effectively- a handbook for managers, trainers, systems analysts, market researchers, health professionals, and others.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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262532815
ISBN-10:0262532816
Author:Beth Crandall, Gary A. Klein, Robert R. Hoffman
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:Bradford Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Edition:1st
Release Date:7 July 2006
Weight:590g
Dimensions:229mm x 178mm x 17mm
Series:A Bradford Book
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Discovering the basis for expertise is a task fraught with difficulties, but Crandall, Klein, and Hoffman provide the practical guidance of experienced CTA practitioners. They uncover their mental models, critical cues, and strategies for organizing knowledge and adapting routines. This book collects the resources one needs to become expert at using new tools to support cognitive work.”–David Woods, Institute for Ergonomics, Ohio State University “Cognitive task analysis (CTA) is an immensely important approach to evaluating the development, implementation, and use of complex systems. Working Minds is a one-of-a-kind handbook in which highly qualified authors not only provide practical guidance for conducting CTA but also address fundamental cognitive issues that support the techniques. It will prove an extremely valuable resource for practitioners, scientists, systems engineers, and students interested in cognitive systems and workplace evaluation.”–Vimla L. Patel, Director, Laboratory of Decision Making and Cognition, Columbia University

About The Author

Beth Crandall

Beth Crandall is Senior Technical Director of the Klein Associates Division, Applied Research Associates.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.Robert R. Hoffman is Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, Florida.

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