ABSTRACT

Task analysis methods serve little purpose unless they help make useful decisions concerned with developing or evaluating aspects of human factors and human resource management. Systematically addressing issues of human factors design is fundamental to HTA. It can be argued that an HTA is complete only when hypotheses have been generated to deal with each part of the task. To provide better support for making design processes, therefore, we need to go further. We shall consider four issues concerned with human factors design and HTA:

considering the design options making design choices developing detailed design human factors design decisions within the system life-cycle.