title: A software toolkit for hierarchical task analysis.
abstract: This paper describes a prototype software tool that offers support to the human factors specialist using hierarchical task analysis (HTA). The tool provides a direct manipulation diagram editor for HTA and provides high-quality output of analyses, in both graphic and automatically generated tabular form. The tool is implemented in Smalltalk-80 and currently runs on Macintosh computers.
authors.affiliation: Applied Psychology Group, Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bass
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aspinall
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Walters
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stanton