Task-Related Knowledge Structures: Analysis, Modelling and Application
Peter T. Johnson, Hilary M. Johnson, Ray Waddington, Alan Shouls · 1988
this paper we will argue that task knowledge structures are functionally equivalent to the knowledge structures that people possess and use when performing a task. We then go on to describe a method for identifying, analysing and modelling task knowledge structures (TKS). The contents of these TKS models can be usefully applied to the generation of design solutions. A method for applying these models to design is described. In describing TKS models and their application to design we will use examples taken from real tasks that have been analysed and real designs that have been proposed. However, because these examples are taken from complex domains we have selected them so that they will exemplify our approach rather than as complete models of the tasks within the domains