All Outputs (9)

Macrocognitive models of expertise (2020)
Book Chapter

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a brief understanding of macrocognition, some of its theoretical and methodological underpinnings, and three examples of macrocognitive models: the recognition-primed decision model, the data–frame model of s... Read More about Macrocognitive models of expertise.

Adaptive skill as the conditio sine qua non of expertise (2018)
Journal Article

This critical interpretive research synthesis is on the topic of adaptation and skill. After an initial identification of 1995 abstracts we identified and collated a database of 140 publications that explicitly reference expertise and adaptation. We... Read More about Adaptive skill as the conditio sine qua non of expertise.

Macrocognition: The science and engineering of sociotechnical work systems (2017)
Journal Article

The increasing complexity of work systems and changes in the nature of workplace technology over the past century have resulted in a substantial shift in the nature of work activities, from those predominated by physical labor toward more cognitively... Read More about Macrocognition: The science and engineering of sociotechnical work systems.

Evaluating the potential of new technological tools for safety critical work (2011)
Journal Article

Defining user requirements of complex human-system interaction technologies and testing the fulfilment of these requirements in the end-product are issues of design practice that are currently not solved in an optimal way. In the current paper severa... Read More about Evaluating the potential of new technological tools for safety critical work.

Computational and theoretical perspectives on recognition-primed decision making (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A theme of chapters in this volume is the question of how experts cope with challenging, rare, or unusual problems, whether their expertise can transfer to novel situations, and how expertise can accommodate dynamic and uncertain situations. The goal... Read More about Computational and theoretical perspectives on recognition-primed decision making.

Decision-centered design: Leveraging cognitive task analysis in design (2003)
Book Chapter

Applied cognitive task analysis (ACTA): A practitioner’s toolkit for understanding cognitive task demands (2000)
Book Chapter

Cognitive task analysis methods focus on describing and representing the cognitive elements that underlie goal generation, decision making, judgements, etc. Although cognitive task analyses often begin with high-level descriptions of the task based o... Read More about Applied cognitive task analysis (ACTA): A practitioner’s toolkit for understanding cognitive task demands.

Expert decision making (1999)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to outline the key aspects of how experts make decisions. The central theme of the paper is that decision making in dynamic settings is perceptual rather than conceptual. In high stress, time-pressured, high stakes, or un... Read More about Expert decision making.

Applied cognitive task analysis (ACTA): A practitioner's toolkit for understanding cognitive task demands (1998)
Journal Article

Cognitive task analysis (CTA) is a set of methods for identifying cognitive skills, or mental demands, needed to perform a task proficiently. The product of the task analysis can be used to inform the design of interfaces and training systems. Howeve... Read More about Applied cognitive task analysis (ACTA): A practitioner's toolkit for understanding cognitive task demands.