Abstract
Because of the progress of Internet and search engine represented by Google, the value of idea is increasing instead of the value of knowledge. MindMap is a famous and useful method to support imagination and association. However, to make the MindMap by oneself causes the partial knowledge and idea. From this viewpoint, we have proposed the idea generation support system by using the shared knowledge made by the colleagues who have same background and Google suggest. To examine the effectiveness of shared knowledge and Google suggest on the idea generation, we performed a couple of experiments. As a result, the performance by using the proposed system with shared knowledge was superior than others, and also the subjects tend to prefer the proposed system with shared knowledge.
