TaskArchitect: Taking the work out of task analysis

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 86, Issue , 2004, Pages 145-154

  Stuart, Jon ^a   Penn, Richard ^b  

^a TaskArchitect Inc   (Canada)

^b Positive Interaction Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hierarchical task analysis; Task analysis; Task analysis tool

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL TOOLS; GENERIC APPROACH; HIERARCHICAL TASK ANALYSIS; NEW APPROACHES; SUPPORT TOOL; TASK ANALYSIS;

JOB ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953003566     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1045446.1045473     Document Type: Conference Paper

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