About Cognitive Task Analysis (CTA)
The Secure Decisions team is skilled in the conduct of CTA, a systematic process for eliciting and identifying cognitive elements of task performance. Specific capabilities have been developed to assist in understanding the requirements of computer network analysts and like professionals.
Features of Cognitive Task Analysis include:
- Useful when behaviors and decision processes are not directly observable
- Contrast with behavioral task analysis
- Cognitive processes assessed via CTA include: decide, judge, notice, recognize, interpret, prioritize, anticipate (Militello & Klein, 1997)
- Attempts to identify underlying domain knowledge elements, including concepts, principles and interrelationships; goals and goal structures; rules, strategies and plans; implicit knowledge, and mental models (HPC, 2007)
- Related: knowledge elicitation and knowledge representation processes
Secure Decisions has applied CTA to the computer network analyst domain. Read more. . .
The Wikipedia has an excellent overview of CTA concepts and typical applications.
