This volume is the first comprehensive history of task analysis, charting its origins from the earliest applied psychology through to modern forms of task analysis that focus on the study of cognitive work.

Robert R. Hoffman, Laura G. Militello

Part 1. History. 1. Introduction to Section 1: History. 2. A History of Task Analysis. 3. Evolution of Task Analysis into Cognitive Task Analysis: From Time and Motion Studies to Man-Machine Systems. 4. Defining and Bounding Cognitive Task Analysis. 5. Emergence of the Communities of Practice. Part 2. The Perspectives. 6. Introduction to Section 2: The Perspectives. 7. Cognitive Systems Engineering. 8. Expertise Studies. 9. Naturalistic Decision Making. 10. Work Analysis. 11. Sociological and Ethnographic Perspectives. 12. Human-Centered Computing. Part 3. Synthesis. 13. Introduction to Section 3: Synthesis. 14. Synthesis: Divergences of the Perspectives. 15. Synthesis: Convergences of the Perspectives. 16. Synthesis: Convergence on The Topic of Teamwork and Team Cognition. 17. Synthesis: Methodological Challenges for Cognitive Task Analysis.