Leveraging IEC and others’ viewpoints presentation to support creativity

Abstract

This paper proposes a creative thinking support system equipped with others’viewpoints presentation feature. The recent hype around digital transformation (DX) fueled a growing sense of expectation for innovation, which requires flexible thinking and rich creativity. On the other hand, others’ viewpoints are believed to hold clues for discovering new insights. Therefore, the present study aims at catalyzing creativity through adaptive presentation of context relevant viewpoints from others, as hints. Experimental evaluation results confirmed that the system was able to promote awareness of differences between one’s and others’ viewpoints. In addition, we found that the system was able to generate hints that were consistent with users’ thinking.