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An information management system with the facility to support long-term creative thinking

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Most previous creativity support systems sustain short-term temporal thinking that is separate from users’ daily activities. In this paper, we propose a system to support long-term idea-generation in daily life. The system consists of two subsystems: a management system for problems and ideas calledIdeaManager, and a personal information storage system callediBox. When information is registered in iBox, it searches related problems and ideas in IdeaManager and presents the results. Users then try to generate or enhance ideas for automatically retrieved problems or ideas using registered information as the hint. To evaluate and enhance our system, we carried out a six-week experiment. Based on the results, we give some proposals for future systems.

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Hirohito Shibata: He received his B.Sci. degree from Kanazawa University in 1992 and his M.Sci. degree from Osaka University in 1994. He was a software engineer at Fuji Xerox Co., Ld from 1994 to 2000. He is currently a doctoral student with Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Tokyo. His research interests include human-computer interaction and computer support for creative activities. He is a member of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) and Japanese Cognitive Science Society (JCSS).

Koichi Hori, D.Eng.: He received his B.Eng, M.Eng, and Dr.Eng. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1979, 1981, and 1984, respectively. In 1984, he joined National Institute of Japanese Literature, where he developed AI systems for literature studies. Since 1988, he has been with the University of Tokyo. He is currently a professor with Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, the University of Tokyo. From September 1989 to January 1990, he also held a visiting position at University of Compiegne, France. His current research interests include AI technology for supporting human creative activities, cognitive engineering and Intelligent CAD systems. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, IEICE, IPS J, JSAI, JSSST, and JCSS.

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Shibata, H., Hori, K. An information management system with the facility to support long-term creative thinking. NGCO 21, 23–36 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03042323

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