{"product_id":"perspectives-on-cognitive-task-analysis-robert-r-hoffman-9780805861402","title":"Perspectives on Cognitive Task Analysis: Historical Origins and Modern Communities of Practice","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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. Through this detailed historical analysis, it is made apparent how task analysis has always been cognitive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapters cover the histories, key ideas, and contributions to methodology of a number of communities of practice, including: Sociotechnics, European Work Analysis, Naturalistic Decision Making, Cognitive Systems Engineering, Ethnography, Human Factors. Further, integrative chapters focus on the purposes of cognitive task analysis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is shown how all the various communities of practice are living in the same scientific universe, though are in many ways distinctive in terms of their key concerns and main theories. It is a historiography of task analysis, and the people who invented task analysis. It is also an explanatory primer on what cognitive task analysis is all about and what it can do. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePerspectives on Cognitive Task Analyis\u003c\/em\u003e will be of value to professionals in allied disciplines who might come to rely on cognitive task analysis in their system development programs. It will be invaluable to students who need to know what task analysis and cognitive task analysis are really all about. For practitioners of cognitive task analysis, this volume is a major presentation of what their scientific universe is all about.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert R. Hoffman,Laura G. Militello\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0805861408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780805861402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Psychology Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 538\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 7.20w x 1.30d","brand":"Robert R. Hoffman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065157038335,"sku":"9780805861402","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d0b06d4f-3569-4c32-8d1d-50ce31e433b1.jpg?v=1768673371","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/perspectives-on-cognitive-task-analysis-robert-r-hoffman-9780805861402","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}