Expanding Concept Mapping to Address Spatio-temporal Dimensionality

Concept mapping has been used in multiple research domains for a variety of purposes such as brainstorming, knowledge elicitation, student testing and evaluation. Our work has applied the technique with pilots, emergency managers, emergency responders, and image analysts. Indeed, concept mapping has proven to be valuable both as an end state to represent and in turn understand knowledge, as well as the means to acquire knowledge from experts or users. This paper explores one path in the history of concept mapping use as a knowledge elicitation device, emphasizing its application in frameworks of knowledge acquisition. We conclude with proposed perturbations that help researchers account for spatio-temporal factors in task and event elicitation.