Inquiry-based Support System to Improve Intention Sharing Skills

Abstract

In order to achieve fruitful and creative discussions, it is important that the speakers verbalize and share their own intentions behind the utterance properly with the listeners. We call such essential skills for creative discussion “intention-sharing skills.” The research objective is to propose a research activity support system for cultivating novice researchers’ intention-sharing skills. To achieve this objective, we focus on the opportunities of research meeting. We, especially, take notice the researchers’ internal self-conversation processes of organizing their own thoughts to improve their readiness for sharing intentions in a following research meeting. In this paper, we first structure inquiriesfor phase of organizing own thoughts. Then, we develop a research activity support system in which researchers focus on organizing the structure of their own thinking processes as a pyramidal structure consists of chains of inquiries and answers.