Background In problem-based learning (PBL), the facilitator plays an important role in guiding the student learning process. However, although content expertise is generally regarded as a useful but non-essential prerequisite for effective PBL facilitation, the perceived importance of content knowledge may be subject to cultural, contextual, and/or experiential influences. Aim We sought to exam...

Previous research has shown that skilled athletes are able to respond faster than novices to skill-specific information. The aim of this study was to ascertain whether expert outfielders are faster than non-experts in acting on information about the flight of a fly ball. It was hypothesized that expert outfielders are better attuned to this information; as a result, faster and more accurate res...

This paper describes BenInq, an expert system for beneets inquiry in the insurance industry. BenInq is designed to be used by both customer service representatives, who answer customers' questions in real time, and policy modiiers, who update insurance products. The main challenges were the design of the KR structure | in particular, representing a huge knowledge base at varying levels of granu...

Automated control of a virtual camera is useful for both linear animation and interactive virtual environments. We have constructed a knowledge-based system that allows users to experiment with various cinematic genres and view the results in the form of animated 3D movies. We have followed a knowledge acquisition process converting domain expert principles into declarative rules, and our syste...

An ATMS (Assumption-based Truth Maintenance System) has been widely used for maintaining the truth of an information by detecting and solving the contradictions in rule-based systems. However, the ATMS cannot correctly maintain the truth of the information in case that the generated information is satisfied within a time interval or includes data about temporal relations of events in time varyi...

Models play an important role in modern organizations. They are used to coordinate the interplay of stakeholders, inform the design of software systems and are even used for controlling purposes. While these models affect multiple people within an organization their creation and usage is limited to a few experts. This is due to the common belief that non-expert modelers are not capable of perfo...

This poster addresses a learning biography study which aims at analyzing learning histories of both expert and non-expert improvisers (five recognized expert improvisers and five renowned musicians lacking improvisational expertise). It was hypothesized that by choosing both experts and non-experts it is possible to distinguish successful and unsuccessful learning strategies and instructional m...