Focus groups as a group knowledge acquisition technique

Architectures and methodologies provide knowledge acquisition researchers and practitioners broad working frameworks within which to explore a variety of questions. However, in order to pursue the development of robust reasoning systems rigorously with reasonable expectations of the development process, empirical assessments of the knowledge acquisition process and of heuristic inputs to the process are essential. In this paper we discuss an experiment whose results support the use of a group knowledge acquisition technique in combination with other knowledge acquisition techniques.