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COGNITIVE TASK ANALYSIS


HOW? List and summarise all of the user's sensory inputs, decision points, and actions.

WHY? This is good for understanding users' perceptual, attentional and informational needs and to identify bottlenecks where errors occur.

(e.g. Cognitive task analysis helped the IDEO team understand the proximity and disorientation problems that remote vehicle operators suffered due to the design of their controls.)