TY - GEN
T1 - Insight or trial and error
T2 - 12th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2008
AU - Nakamura, Jun
AU - Ohsawa, Yukio
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - As our life becomes more sophisticated, our ability to create concepts is indispensable. Based on our concept formation model, which focuses on ambiguous items that cause a change of one's decisions, we developed a web-based creativity support system. This is intended to guide users in the categorization of words in analogical reasoning by forming batches of words to discover new concepts. 20 junior high school students participated in an experiment, where concept formation is expected to be induced by an ambiguous interpretation of presented information under constraints. The result provided some evidence that an existence of ambiguous items corresponds to a diversification of a thought process either as insight or trial & error in categorizing words. The result also showed that the reconstruction of groups for including ambiguous items into some groups accelerates the creation of new concepts for better interpretation.
AB - As our life becomes more sophisticated, our ability to create concepts is indispensable. Based on our concept formation model, which focuses on ambiguous items that cause a change of one's decisions, we developed a web-based creativity support system. This is intended to guide users in the categorization of words in analogical reasoning by forming batches of words to discover new concepts. 20 junior high school students participated in an experiment, where concept formation is expected to be induced by an ambiguous interpretation of presented information under constraints. The result provided some evidence that an existence of ambiguous items corresponds to a diversification of a thought process either as insight or trial & error in categorizing words. The result also showed that the reconstruction of groups for including ambiguous items into some groups accelerates the creation of new concepts for better interpretation.
KW - Ambiguity and constraints
KW - Concept
KW - Creativity
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-85565-1_92
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-85565-1_92
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:57749199459
SN - 3540855645
SN - 9783540855644
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 742
EP - 749
BT - Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - 12th International Conference, KES 2008, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 3 September 2008 through 5 September 2008
ER -