DEVELOPED COMPUTERIZED TOOLS BASED ON MENTAL MODELS FOR CREATIVITY SUPPORT

摘要

Recently, creativity has become a hot spot of research in the wide area of academy and industry. The recognition of the definition or nature of creativity and the computerized tools for creativity support are two research perspectives. The latter as the common approach has got more and more attentions from multi-disciplines, such as cognitive psychology, management science, system science, knowledge science, social science and computer science, etc. Also, both the theory and mental models have been involved in the design and operation of the computerized tools. This paper presents a creativity support system, named group argumentation environment (GAE) which is a platform for idea generation, knowledge creation and wisdom emergence by versatile aids, like visualization of expert opinion structure, clustering of contributed opinions for concept formation and idea/knowledge detecting and growing, etc.