Development of a Taxonomy of Human Performance: A Review of the Third Year's Progress

Abstract

The purpose of the taxonomy project is to develop and evaluate systems for describing and classifying tasks which can improve generalization of research results about human performance and to develop a common language for communicating between researchers and individuals who need to apply research to personnel problems. The ability-requirement and task characteristics approaches were used to post-dict mean values of performance measures and relevant factor loadings for a variety of tasks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0721217

Entities

People

  • Edwin A. Fleishman
  • Robert W. Stephenson

Organizations

  • American Institutes for Research

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Computer Programming
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detection
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Information Theory
  • Information Transfer
  • Motor Skills
  • Personality
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Reaction Time
  • Reasoning
  • Systems Engineering
  • Task Performance And Analysis

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