Reimagining Workload Task Analysis: Applications to Training System Design

Abstract

Today s warfighter performs more complex, cognitively demanding tasks than ever before. Despite the need for more extensive training to perform these tasks, acquisition professionals are often tasked to reduce training budgets and identify optimal tradeoffs. Tools are available to help them make these decisions that provide empirical evidence of how performance and mission requirements will be affected by design decisions. This article offers insights into the utility of implementing a Workload Task Analysis (WLTA) early in weapon systems acquisition for the purpose of focusing on training system decisions, and provides a description of where WLTA occurs within the top-down functional analysis process. It concludes with several examples of how the WLTA results can be used to guide training development.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA550248

Entities

People

  • Dana E. Sims
  • Dennis Duke
  • James Pharmer

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Aircrafts
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Intelligence
  • Engineers
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Information Processing
  • Military Research
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Psychology
  • Systems Engineering
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Training
  • Workload

Readers

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.