Design ability and differences between novice and expert designers have been quite extensively studied in the field of design methodology. For example, design expertise got much attention in the latest Design Thinking Research Symposium held in Australia. Little attention, however, is paid to the development from novice into expert. At this moment, there is no theoretical basis for explaining a...

Without question, the educational research community has garnered much from past decades of expert/novice theory and research. Framed largely by artificial intelligence and information-processing theory, those traditional research programs initially took shape in the 1970s and 1980s around the problem-solving performance of experts. The primary goal was to determine the characteristics and acti...

Without question, the educational research community has garnered much from past decades of expert/novice theory and research. Framed largely by artificial intelligence and information-processing theory, those traditional research programs initially took shape in the 1970s and 1980s around the problem-solving performance of experts. The primary goal was to determine the characteristics and acti...

Although employees’ expertise has long been regarded as an important asset in organizations at least on a par with capital, goods and documented information, it is only recently that automated systems to enhance the visibility and traceability of employees with particular expertise started to receive research attention. In this paper, we introduce a systematic classification of alternative arch...

Ericsson discusses the history of research on the superior performance of experts in diverse fields from sport to music, including new insights that could be used to increase performance in the general population.

Ever since Diamond and Carey’s (1986) seminal work, object expertise has often been viewed through the prism of face perception (for a thorough discussion, see Tanaka and Gauthier, 1997; Sheinberg and Tarr, 2010). According to Wong and Wong (2014, W&W), however, this emphasis has simply been a response to the question of modularity of face perception, and has not been about expertise in and of ...

To understand expertise and expertise development, interactions between knowledge, cognitive processing and task characteristics must be examined in people at different levels of training, experience, and performance. Interviewing is widely used in the initial exploration of domain expertise. Work and cognitive task analysis chart the knowledge, skills, and strategies experts employ to perform ...

Previous research into the effects of action video gaming on cognition has suggested that long term exposure to this type of game might lead to an enhancement of cognitive skills that transfer to non-gaming cognitive tasks. However, these results have been controversial. The aim of the current study was to test the presence of positive cognitive transfer from action video games to two cognitive...