The'Problem of Extracting the Knowledge of Experts fkom the Perspective of Experimental Psychology

My investigations fall on the experimental psychology side of expert system engineering, specifically the problem of generating methods for extracting the knowledge of experts. I do not review the relevant literature on the cognition of experts.l I want to share a few ideas about research methods that I found worthwhile as I worked with expert interpreters of aerial photographs and other remotely sensed data [Hoffman 1984) and on a project involving expert planners of airlift operations (Hoffman 1986). These ideas should be useful to knowledge engineers and others who might be interested in developing an expert system. In generating expert systems, one must begin by characterizing the knowledge of an expert.