Facilitating the Creation of Graphical Knowledge Representations for Brainstorming and Decision Support

摘要

This paper contains a description of the use of Concept Maps for facilitated brainstorming sessions. Concept Maps were originally used to assess the conceptual knowledge of school children. It has since been demonstrated that the creation of Concept Maps while interviewing experts can be useful for knowledge elicitation and representation. They also can be used for "brainstorming", including participation by persons in remote locations, This paper describes basic issues pertaining to the facilitation of brainstorming sessions with Concept Maps and presents a case study of a brainstorming workshop on alternate scenarios for Mars exploration carried out by participants from NASA Ames Research Center and researchers at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), Pensacola, FL.