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Posted on October 26, 2007December 8, 2008

Why task analysis doesn’t do it for me

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Like every self-respecting human-computer interaction (HCI) lecturer, I introduce task analysis or the technique of analysing how people perform a task or job, to my students a couple of weeks into a given course. Each time I am aware that I fail to get excited about task analysis and so give it a bad press. Continue reading “Why task analysis doesn’t do it for me”

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