A Friendly Personal Decision Aid

Abstract

BEFORE COMPLETING FORM 1. REPORT NUMBER 1. 3OVT ACCESSION NO 3. RECIPIENT'S CATALOG NUMBER Computer-aided analysis 20.' ABSTRACT (Continue on .-e*vere side It necessary and identify by block number) Early efforts to produce decision aids, although they led to valuable research findings, did not succeed as field applications. Even when the targeted users agreed that the computer-aided decision process did improve deciaion making, these aids eventually fell into disuse when the personal support of the decision analysts was removed. User attitudes tended to be dominated by the short-range considertations of speed, convenlence, and simplicity of operation, rather than by the long-range factors such as methodological thoroughness and consi.stency.