SYDE 642
Cognitive Engineering Methods
Winter 2022
Topics
- Situation-awareness analysis, design and measurement
- Cognitive task analysis
- Naturalistic decision-making and the critical-incident method
- Concept mapping and macrocognitive methods
- Contextual inquiry
- Distributed cognition, fieldwork and ethnographic methods
- Embodied cognition
Readings
- Sources of PowerAssigned reading named in the naturalistic decision-making schedule.
- Cognition in the WildAssigned reading named in the distributed cognition schedule.
- Weekly reading lists are supplied. Named readings include Endsley on situation awareness, Hoffman and Fiore on macrocognition, and Holtzblatt on contextual inquiry.
Winter 2021
Topics
- Situation-awareness analysis, design and measurement
- Cognitive task analysis
- Naturalistic decision-making and the critical-incident method
- Concept mapping and macrocognitive methods
- Contextual inquiry
- Distributed cognition, fieldwork and ethnographic methods
- Embodied cognition
- Ecological psychology and situated cognition
- Computational cognition
- Brunswick’s lens model
Readings
- Sources of PowerAssigned reading named in the naturalistic decision-making schedule.
- Cognition in the WildAssigned reading named in the distributed cognition schedule.
- Weekly reading lists are supplied. Named readings include Endsley on situation awareness; Hoffman and Fiore on macrocognition; Holtzblatt on contextual inquiry; and Gibson on ecological psychology.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- course_outline ↗Winter 2022
- course_outline ↗Winter 2021
- Official public PDF outline or course description. Materials and topic extracts may be partial; consult the linked source for the full list.
- Official public PDF outline or course description. Materials and topic extracts may be partial; consult the linked source for the full list.