Glossary


Task Actions

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Identification

Task Actions

Definitions/Uses

2001
Reference /Scacchi, 2001/ Process Models in Software Engineering

Definition/
Use Task actions can be viewed a non-linear sequences of primitive actions which denote atomic units of computing work, such as user's selection of a command or menu entry using mouse or keyboard. Winograd and others have referred to these units of cooperative work between people and computers as "structured discourses of work" /Winograd, 1986/, while task chains have become popularized under the name of "workflow" /Bolcer, 1998/.

2001
Reference	/Scacchi, 2001/ Process Models in Software Engineering
Definition/ Use	Task actions can be viewed a non-linear sequences of primitive actions which denote atomic units of computing work, such as user's selection of a command or menu entry using mouse or keyboard. Winograd and others have referred to these units of cooperative work between people and computers as "structured discourses of work" /Winograd, 1986/, while task chains have become popularized under the name of "workflow" /Bolcer, 1998/.

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Process Models

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