The Modified Imitation Game: A Method for Measuring Interactional Expertise.

ABSTRACT: The study of the sociology of scientific knowledge distinguishes between contributory and interactional experts. Contributory experts have practical expertise-they can "walk the walk." Interactional experts have internalized the tacit components of expertise-they can "talk the talk" but are not able to reliably "walk the walk." Interactional expertise permits effective communication between contributory experts and others (e.g., laypeople), which in turn facilitates working jointly toward shared goals. Interactional expertise is attained through long-term immersion into the expert community in question. To assess interactional expertise, researchers developed the imitation game-a variant of the Turing test-to test whether a person, or a particular group, possesses interactional expertise o

SUBMITTER: Arsal G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8586539 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature