A supporting system for human creativity: Computer aided
divergent thinking process by provision of associative pieces of
information
We propose a new method of supporting human creativity whereby
heterogeneous information is provided to users. By extracting data
associatively from databases and selecting data by using a user-model
of interests and a user-model of knowledge, this system provides
pieces of heterogeneous information to users coasely within the
interests or scope of the user's current thinking. In this paper, how
heterogeneous information is provided to users is shown as well as
experimental results obtained with a prototype system.