Böcker i Expertise: Research and Applications Series-serien

This volume reports the findings of top naturalistic decision making (NDM) researchers, offering a historical perspective on the emergence of this paradigm. NDM describes the way people use their experience to make decisions in the context of a job or task and under various conditions.

Naturalistic Decision Making is an important area of research in applied psychology. This book comes from selected topics at the 1998 conference on NDM, held in Virginia.

Covers 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. This volume is suitable for practitioners in business and government, as well as academics and students who are interested in naturalistic decision making.

Cognitive task analysis is a broad area consisting of tools and techniques for describing the knowledge and strategies required for task performance. This work covers topics such as: general approaches to cognitive task analysis, system design, instruction, and cognitive task analysis for teams.

Naturalistic decision making is an important area of research in applied psychology. This work investigates topics discussed during the 1998 Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making, held in Virginia, USA.

This volume reports the findings of top naturalistic decision making (NDM) researchers, offering a historical perspective on the emergence of this paradigm. NDM describes the way people use their experience to make decisions in the context of a job or task and under various conditions.

Actors memorize hours' worth of verbal material in a very short time, and they retrieve it verbatim along with the accompanying gestures, movements, thoughts and emotions of the characters. This book studies and details the mental processes involved in this task.

Researchers have revealed that real expertise, while applied to well-defined tasks with highly circumscribed contexts, often stretches beyond its routine boundaries. This work is a culmination of some of the studies.

Offers an integrative perspective to the analysis of experts and expertise in organizations, social roles, and management. By examining the converging elements of both approaches and investigating the conditions of interactions with all types of experts, this work helps to understand the market form of expert services.

The basic philosophy of this work is that human operators remain the unchallenged experts, maintaining this advantage due to their ability to learn and build up a high level of expertise. It is this expertise that must be taken into account in the development of efficient human-machine systems.

Mieg's book, in our LEA Expertise series, will cover the issues of expertise and relate them to experts' roles in psychology, organizational studies, and sociology.

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.