The Oxford Handbook of Expertise

Paul Ward is a Lead Applied Cognitive Psychologist (Human Behavior and Cybersecurity Capability) in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department at The MITRE Corporation. He also holds an appointment as adjunct Professor of Psychology at Michigan Technological University. He is a Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors specialist, Chartered Psychologist, and Chartered Scientist and internationally known for his pioneering research on expertise, adaptive skill,training, and accelerated learning. He has attracted funding from grant agencies worldwide and published over 100 scientific papers, including a co-authored book entitled Accelerated expertise: Training for high proficiency in a complex world.Jan Maarten Schraagen is Principal Scientist at TNO and Professor of Applied Cognitive Psychology at University of Twente, The Netherlands. His research interests include adaptive automation, resilience engineering, team communication processes, human-machine teaming, and scenario-based training. He was main editor of Cognitive Task Analysis (2000, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) and Naturalistic Decision Making and Macrocognition (2008, Ashgate). He is editor in chief of the Journal of CognitiveEngineering and Decision Making. Dr. Schraagen holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.Julie Gore is a Reader in Organizational Psychology, at the School of Management, University of Bath, UK.A Chartered Psychologist and Fellow of the British Psychological Society her research focus is on the psychology of expertise and Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) across a range of professions working under uncertainty. She is Associate Editor for Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology and serves on the boards of the British Journal of Management and Frontiers in Organizational Psychology. Dr Gore holds a PhD in Applied Cognitive Psychology (one of the world's first in thefield of NDM) from Oxford Brookes University, UK.Dr. Emilie M. Roth is a cognitive psychologist whose work has involved analysis of human problem-solving and decision-making in real-world environments (e.g., military command and control; nuclear power plant emergencies; railroad operations; healthcare), and the impact of support systems (e.g., computerized procedures; alarm systems; advanced graphical displays; new forms of decision-support and automation) on cognitive performance. She is a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society,is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, serves on the editorial board of the journal Human Factors, and is a member of the Board on Human-Systems Integration at the National Academies.