System Development Technical Group

Good morning colleagues, 

I am looking for insight from practitioners with experience doing Goal-Directed Task Analysis. Specifically: how you analyzed your interview data to generate Goal-Decision-Information Requirement hierarchies. I have reviewed some of the literature using this method and have not found details on the process used for data analysis. While I have many ideas on how it could be done, and have started - I'm looking for insight that could help validate or expedite my process. For example, did you transcribe interviews, code the content as goals, decisions, etc. and then build a tree from there? Build an initial hierarchy based on your first interview and background knowledge then iterate thereafter with data from subsequent interviews? How did you deal with bias from past domain knowledge?

This is my first post in the forum, so apologies if its not in the right place and happy to take direction on that.

Thanks in advance for your support!

Catherine 

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Catherine Dulude PEng
Human Factors Specialist
Ottawa ON
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Hi Catherine! Did you get any direct responses? If not, Mica Endsley has spoken on goal-directed task analysis if remember correctly. I am also curious as to what tools that you may be using to conduct a GDTA. Especially tools that allow you to compare "as-is" with "to-be" or a pre-post comparison.

Ben

Ben Willems
Engineering Research Psychologist
Human Factor Lead

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Bernardus Willems
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