Computerized collaborative support for enhancing human's creativity for networked community

Abstract

The rapid development of computer and Internet enables people who have common interests to build loosely coupled networked communities. Through stimulating individual's creativity to augment community's communicative and collaborative abilities for acquiring new ideas and knowledge is becoming highlight research and achieving more and more experts' attentions. In this paper, we focus on exploring effective computerized collaborative support for enhancing human's creativity for networked community. Versatile aids are explored, such as visualization of expert opinion structure, clustering of contributed opinions for concept formation and idea/knowledge detecting and growing, etc. all integrated into a group argumentation environment (GAE) with a simple example. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.