Report on First SRI Team SME Test (T1)

This was the first of a series of planned SME tests for the SRI team that I had proposed. It was held on March 1-2, 2001 at SRI in Menlo Park, CA.

The goal of this first test was to observe whether SMEs can understand composition as an approach to knowledge entry, and the two SMEs that we tested successfully used components from a small library.

I prepared the training material and conducted the test at SRI with the help of many people from the team, including UT's Bruce Porter and Ken Barker, UWF's Pat Hayes, Boeing's Pete Clark, ISI's Jihie Kim, and SRI's Andres Rodriguez, Jerome Thomere and Kristien Mortelmans (both in absentia), and Vinay Chaudri, who conducted the test with me at SRI.

Please contact me (gil@isi.edu) if you have any comments or questions.

Products

• Summary notes: Notes on the 3/5/01 report to the team.
• Harcopies of detailed notes and transcription materials are available upon request from Yolanda Gil (gil@isi.edu).
• Transcripts of two SMEs doing task
  • "Cathy Codon" doing transcription, prepared by Jihie Kim and Yolanda Gil. -- Check out the summary in slide 2 and the last trial in slides 36 through 55.
  • "Polly Peptide" doing transcription , prepared by Vinay Chaudri.

SME Background Questionnaire

• Questionnaire about SME Background

Training material

• Introduction of project and goals
• Part I: Overview of the approach
• Part II: Overview of the component library
• Part III: How to Use SHAKEN

Task Materials

• Task description and overview of additional components
• Questionnaire form