Skilled Performance.  Part I.

Fitts, Paul M.; Bahrick, Harry P.; Noble, Merrill E.; Briggs, George E.

Skilled Performance. Part I.

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Abstract:

The report undertakes to analyze the nature of skilled performance and to develop a theoretical basis for the understanding of mans performance capacities. The first section of the report develops a framework for the experimental study of skilled performance. It deals with the taxonomy of tasks, with the measurement of human performance, and with several mathematical and physical models that are useful in guiding research and in theoretical organization of the empirical data from investigations of skill processes. The second section reviews systematically the empirical data from researches on skilled performance, with emphasis on studies that have dealt with the effects of task variables. Author

Author(s):

Fitts, Paul M. ; Bahrick, Harry P. ; Noble, Merrill E. ; Briggs, George E.

Author Organization(s):

OHIO STATE UNIV RESEARCH FOUNDATION COLUMBUS

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. 1 Mar 56-31 Mar 59,

Supplementary Note:

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:

Approved For Public Release

RECORD

Collection: TR

Identifying Numbers

Report Number(s):

OSURF-686-Pt-1

Contract/Grant Number(s):

AF 41(657)-70

Project Number(s):

AF-7707, OSURF-686

Subject Terms

Communities of Interest:

No COI(s) Identified

Descriptor(s):

(*PERFORMANCE(HUMAN), ANALYSIS), (*BEHAVIOR, MATHEMATICAL MODELS), MEASUREMENT, REVIEWS, SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, CYBERNETICS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, INFORMATION THEORY, FEEDBACK, REACTION(PSYCHOLOGY)

Field(s)/Group(s):

Psychology

Keyword(s):

TASK ANALYSIS

Report Date:

1959 Mar 31