“…Harper and Dorton believe that mental models can describe knowledge structures, both from in individuals and in groups, the latter of which they refer to as "shared mental models", and they assert that mental models are important for understanding and successfully executing complex tasks that require co-ordination and communication (Harper & Dorton, 2020a). Having acknowledged that there are effective ways to elicit mental models that apply to individuals and groups, and having developed a framework for selecting the most appropriate elicitation method for any given situation, they followed up this work with a sequel paper on mental model visualization (Harper & Dorton, 2020b). In the process, they explored visualization techniques such as pathfinder networks, ordered tree diagrams and concept maps, along with other prominent methods for representing the moving parts that make a system, or any entity in general, tick.…”