Expertise: Research and Applications Series
Informed by Knowledge: Expert Performance in Complex Situations
1st Edition
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By Kathleen L. Mosier, Ute M. Fischer
November 24, 2015
The focus of this book is on how experts adapt to complexity, synthesize and interpret information in context, and transform or "fuse" disparate items of information into coherent knowledge. The chapters examine these processes across experts (e.g. global leaders, individuals in extreme ...
Perspectives on Cognitive Task Analysis: Historical Origins and Modern Communities of Practice
1st Edition
By Robert R. Hoffman, Laura G. Militello
June 09, 2014
This volume is the first comprehensive history of task analysis, charting its origins from the earliest applied psychology through to modern forms of task analysis that focus on the study of cognitive work. Through this detailed historical analysis, it is made apparent how task analysis ...
Accelerated Expertise: Training for High Proficiency in a Complex World
1st Edition
By Robert R. Hoffman, Paul Ward, Paul J. Feltovich, Lia DiBello, Stephen M. Fiore, Dee H. Andrews
August 28, 2013
Speed in acquiring the knowledge and skills to perform tasks is crucial. Yet, it still ordinarily takes many years to achieve high proficiency in countless jobs and professions, in government, business, industry, and throughout the private sector. There would be great advantages if regimens of ...
The Social Psychology of Expertise: Case Studies in Research, Professional Domains, and Expert Roles
1st Edition
By Harald A. Mieg
February 14, 2013
The Social Psychology of Expertise offers an integrative perspective to the analysis of experts and expertise in organizations, social roles, management, etc. It is the first book to link the psychology of expertise to sociology, particularly the sociology of professions. By examining the ...
Expertise Out of Context: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making
1st Edition
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By Robert R. Hoffman
May 22, 2007
Researchers have revealed that real expertise, while applied to well-defined tasks with highly circumscribed contexts, often stretches beyond its routine boundaries. For example, a medical doctor may be called upon to diagnose a rare disease or perform emergency surgery outside his or her area of ...
How Professionals Make Decisions
1st Edition
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By Henry Montgomery, Raanan Lipshitz, Berndt Brehmer
September 23, 2004
This volume is the fruit of the 5th conference on Naturalistic Decision Making which focused on the importance of studying people who have some degree of expertise in the domain in which they make decisions. The substantive concerns pertain to how individuals and groups make decisions in ...
Linking Expertise and Naturalistic Decision Making
1st Edition
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By Eduardo Salas, Gary A. Klein
July 01, 2001
This book contains selected papers presented at the 1998 conference on Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM). The objectives of the conference were to: *make American researchers more aware of NDM research being conducted abroad, particularly in Europe; *connect NDM research with work in management ...
Cognitive Task Analysis
1st Edition
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By Jan Maarten Schraagen, Susan F. Chipman, Valerie L. Shalin
June 01, 2000
Cognitive task analysis is a broad area consisting of tools and techniques for describing the knowledge and strategies required for task performance. Cognitive task analysis has implications for the development of expert systems, training and instructional design, expert decision making and ...
The Nature of Expertise in Professional Acting: A Cognitive View
1st Edition
By Helga Noice
August 01, 1997
For nearly 25 years, expertise has been considered an important testing ground for theories of cognition. Cognitive scientists have examined experts as diverse as chess masters, waiters, field-hockey players, and computer programmers. Recently, increased attention has been given to the arts, ...
Naturalistic Decision Making
1st Edition
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By Caroline E. Zsambok, Gary Klein
December 01, 1996
If you aren't using the term naturalistic decision making, or NDM, you soon will be. Even as a very young field, NDM has already had far-reaching applications in areas as diverse as management, aviation, health care, nuclear power, military command and control, corporate teamwork, and manufacturing...