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Applications of Methods to Systems Engineering Challenges of Smaller, Faster, and Better:
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Cognitive 
Task
 Analysis		 I.A.1 Applied Cognitive Task Analysis (ACTA)      
I.A.2 Critical Decision Method (CDM)      
I.A.3 PARI Method      
I.A.4 Skill-Based CTA Framework      
I.A.5 Decompose, Network, and Asses (DNA) Method      
I.A.6 Task-Knowledge Structures (TKS)      
I.A.7 Goal-Directed Task Analysis (GDTA)      
I.A.8 Cognitive Function Model (CFM)      
I.A.9 Cognitively Oriented Task Analysis (COTA)      
I.A.10 Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA)      
I.A.11 Interacting Cognitive Subsystems (ICS)      
I.A.12 Knowledge Analysis and Documentation System (KADS)      
IA.13 Team CTA Techniques      
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Knowledge 
Elicitation		 I.B.1 Unstructured Interviews      
I.B.2 Structured Interviews      
I.B.3 Step Listing      
I.B.4 Group Interview      
I.B.5 Questionnaires      
I.B.6 Teachback      
I.B.7 Field Observations/Ethnographic Methods      
I.B.8 Twenty Questions      
I.B.9 Discourse/Conversation/Interaction Analysis      
I.B.10 Activity Sampling      
I.B.11 Think-Aloud Problem-Solving/Protocol Analysis      
I.B.12 Retrospective/Aided Recall      
I.B.13 Interruption Analysis      
I.B.14 Shadowing Another      
I.B.15 Shadowing Self      
I.B.16 Simulators/Mockups      
I.B.17 Exploratory Sequential Data Analysis (ESDA)      
I.B.18 Minimal Scenario Technique      
I.B.19 Critical Incident Technique (CIT)      
I.B.20 Cloze Technique      
I.B.21 Critiquing      
I.B.22 Crystal Ball/Stumbling Block Technique      
I.B.23 Table-Top Analysis      
I.B.24 Wizard of Oz Technique      
I.B.25 Decision Analysis      
I.B.26 Rating and Sorting Tasks      
I.B.27 Magnitude Estimation      
I.B.28 Repertory Grid Technique      
I.B.29 P Sort      
I.B.30 Q Sort      
I.B.31 Hierarchical Sort      
I.B.32 Cluster Analysis      
I.B.33 Multidimensional Scaling (MDS)      
I.B.34 Likert Scale Elicitation      
I.B.35 Structural Analysis Technique      
I.B.36 Conceptual Graph Construction      
I.B.37 Diagramming      
I.B.38 Laddering      
I.B.39 Influence Diagram Construction      
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Computational Cognitive
 Modeling		 I.C.1 Keystroke Level Model (KLM)      
I.C.2 CMN-GOMS (Card Moran Newell GOMS)      
I.C.3 NGOMSL (Natural GOMS Language)      
I.C.4 CAT (Cognitive Analysis Tool)      
I.C.5 COGNET      
I.C.6 COGENT      
I.C.7 ACT-R (Atomic Component of Thought - Rational)      
I.C.8 Soar      
I.C.9 EPIC (Executive-Process Interactive Control)      
I.C.10 Apex      
I.C.11 MIDAS (Man Machine Integrated Design and Analysis System)      
I.C.12 SAMPLE (Situation Awareness Model for Pilot-in-the-Loop Evaluation)      
I.C.13 OMAR (Operator Model ARchitecture)      
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Task
 Analysis		 II.A.1 Behavioral Task Analysis      
II.A.2 Operational Sequence Diagrams      
II.A.3 Timeline Analysis      
II.A.4 Operator Function Model (OFM)      
II.A.5 Link Analysis      
Computational 
Task 
Simulation		 II.B.1 IMPRINT (Improved Performance Research Integration Tool)      
II.B.2 CART (Combat Automation Requirements Testbed)      
II.B.3 Micro Saint (System Analysis of Integrated Network of Tasks)      
II.B.4 WinCrew      
II.B.5 IPME (Integrated Performance Modeling Environment)      
System 
Evaluation 
Methods		 III.A.1 Heuristic Evaluation      
III.A.2 Walk-throughs/Cognitive Walk-throughs/Talk-throughs      
III.A.3 Formal Usability Studies      
III.A.4 Rapid Prototyping      
III.A.5 Storyboarding      
III.A.6 Interface Evaluation Surveys      
III.A.7 Ergonomics Checklists      
III.A.8 Contextual Inquiry      
Theoretical Frameworks III.B.1 Activity Theory      
III.B.2 Situated Cognition      
III.B.3 Distributed Cognition      
III.B.4 Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM)      
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Human 
Reliability
 Analysis		 IV.1 Event Tree Analysis      
IV.2 Fault Tree Analysis      
IV.3 Failure Modes and Effects Analysis      
IV.4 Barrier Analysis      
IV.5 Hazard and Operability Analysis (HAZOP)      
IV.6 Management Oversight Risk Tree (MORT)      
IV.7 Work Safety Analysis      
IV.8 Confusion Matrices      
IV.9 Operator Action Event Tree      
IV.10 Generic Error Modeling System (GEMS)      
IV.11 Cognitive Reliability and Error Analysis Method (CREAM)      
Cognitively-
Oriented
 Methods		 V.A.1 Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA)      
V.A.2 Applied Cognitive Work Analysis (ACWA)      
V.A.3 Cognitive Function Analysis (CFA)      
V.A.4 COADE Framework (COgnitive Analysis Design and Evaluation)      
V.A.5 Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) Approach      
System-
Oriented 
Methods		 V.B.1 Information Flow Analysis      
V.B.2 Functional Flow Analysis      
V.B.3 Function Allocation      
V.B.4 Mission and Scenario Analysis      
V.B.5 Signal Flow Graph Analysis      
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