State-of-the-Art Review of Cognitive Task Analysis Techniques

As part of its Programme of Work, RSG.27 on Cognitive Task Analysis undertook the task of reviewing existing cognitive task analysis techniques and computer tools. RSG.27 restricted itself to a “review of reviews”, in order to keep the work manageable. Therefore, descriptions of individual methods and techniques were explicitly excluded from the review. A literature search was conducted, starting with references from 1990 onwards. Twenty reviews were deemed useful for further reading. This chapter contains a brief description of the contents of each review, listed by year of appearance. A more elaborate description may be found in Schraagen, Chipman, Shute, Annett, Strub, Sheppard, Ruisseau, and Graff (1997).