• Good morning, everybody.
  • I am Taku Yamaguchi,
    work in product planning
    in President Office of JustSystems Corporation.
  • Today, I would like to introduce you to CrossConcept.
    In particular I'm going to show you how CrossConcept supports you to tihnk creatively.
  • So, let us start by rating this introduction.
  • Who are you?
  • What are you going to talk about?
  • easy to use: e.g. as criteria for evaluations or decisions
  • match the smooth flow of sentences in a document, attract readers' notice, easy to read
  • have proper and common writing methods and typesetting.
  • It seems that the structure and the usage of themselves have close and mutual relationships with human thinking processes.
  • So, we are trying to externalize, human thinking processes as operations of lists and tables, so as to improve creativity in the thinking processes.
A Concept as a list of items.
Describe a concept as a list of items.
Tabular layout
We think that the arrangement of lists as axes of a table
inspire users to find out some relationships between the concepts represented as lists
and to find some improvements of each concept.
  • create lists
  • select one, two or three list(s) and arrange them as axes of a table
  • input contents into the cells of the table
  • revise the lists
  • get and put lists in a standard data format from and to web pages through the clipboard.
  • describe a concept as a set of some elements, e.g. a list consists of some items.
  • confront the concept with other concepts which are also described as lists, i.e. as axes of a table.
  • consider the relatioinship between the two concepts from these concepts
  • revise the concepts by considering the relationship with other concepts
  • get concepts from the Web and put new or revised concepts to the Web
  • Built on xfy
  • Metaphor, mindset, way of thinking
  • Inspiring, prompting
  • Word processing, document editing
  • Creativity Support Systems
  • Computer support of Creative Thinking Process
  • Idea Generation / Creative Thinking Methodology
  • Natural Language Processing and Understanding
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • Groupware, Collaboration Tools
  • Infrastructure and Environment for KM
  • Knowledge Modeling / Representation / Ontology / Semantic Web
  • Metaphor, mindset, way of thinking
  • Inspiring, prompting
  • Word processing, document editing
Metaphor, mindset, way of thinking
Externalization of thinking process
Externalization of thinking process, easy operation for lists and tables
Conventional functions of lists and tables
in written materials
Inspiring, prompting
Word processing, document editing
Convergent thinking
With CrossConcept, you can use a counter concept, "KICSS2007 Scope", to constrain your concept.
Divergent thinking
You can use a counter concept to go further, extend your concept.
Represented as change of lists
These changes of your concept are represented as changes of your list: losing items, getting new items and altering items.
Controled by selecting counter lists
You can control these changes by selecting counter lists.
 
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  • Explore new points of view broadly
  • Change the way of thinking
  • CrossConcept introduced
  • It supports users to think creatively
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Simple operation, easy to try variety of counter concepts.

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Improve your concept by revising your lists.

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You can use the huge Web as resource of your counter concepts because CrossConcept supports the standard format of the Web.

And you can contribute to the web when you publish your knowledge in the form lists.

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But, what is the difference between these two issues?

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It may be premature to take this topic.

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Thinking processes are externalized on computer so they are supported well.

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Implementing CrossConcept: A Computer Software Supporting Creative Thinking YAMAGUCHI Taku, JustSystems Corporation KOBAYASHI Tatsuo, Justsystem Digital Culture Research Center November 6, 2007 (C) 2007 JustSystems Corporation.