A Novel Method for Acquiring Engineering-Oriented Operational Empirical Knowledge

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Related literatures' analysis.

Literature	Method description	Qualitative or quantitative	Object of extraction	Applied technology	Application field	Drawback
Bandura [8] and Nonaka [10]	Observation	Qualitative method	Actions of domain expert	Observe	Manual work	Inconsistent acquisition results
Collis et al. [7, 11]	Apprenticeship	Qualitative method	Specialized knowledge or skill of domain expert	Extensively practicing the skill	Not limited	Time-consuming and inconsistent acquisition results
Hashimoto et al. [12] and Yoshida et al. [5]	Personal motion sensing	Mixed method	Skilled operations of skilled technicians	Field-oriented interview, human motion capture, and video analysis	Manufacturing industry	Depends on the interview seriously
Watanuki [13]	Method of skills transfer	Qualitative method	Casting technologies and skills of skilled technicians	Sharing a “ba” (place) using multimedia technology and virtual reality technology	Manufacturing skills training	The representation of knowledge is vague
Nakagawa et al. [14] and Huang et al. [15]	Skill education service	Quantitative method	Extract skills from nursing motion (focused on bed care motion)	Nursing skill is extracted from interview and video analysis. The extracted skills are assessed quantitatively	Nurse and care worker	It is difficult to formally represent such knowledge
Li et al. [16] and Nguyen and Zhang [2]	Mobility and physical activity sensing	Mixed method	Nurses, firefighters, waiters, housekeepers, or janitors	Extract high-level knowledge rules from low level sensor signals by means of an unsupervised approach	Service	Aiming at the activities of person; lacking detailed motion
Mitsuhashi et al. [17]	Motion curved surface analysis and composite	Quantitative method	Skill succession	Track the whole joint motion by means of motion curved surfaces and confirm the validity of skill succession by skeleton motion movie and curved surface	Sports and entertainment motion	Lacking accurate description of the motion sequences