Leveraging IEC and Others’ Viewpoints Presentation to Foster Breeding of Creative IoT Gadgets

Abstract

This paper proposes a MESH blocks based creative thinking support system equipped with others’ viewpoints presentation feature. The recent hype around digital transformation (DX) fueled a growing sense of expectation for innovation, which requires flexible thinking and rich creativity. On the other hand, others’ viewpoints are believed to hold clues for discovering new insights. Therefore, the present study aims at catalyzing creativity through adaptive presentation of context relevant viewpoints from others, as hints for idea breeding. Experimental evaluation results confirmed that the system was able to promote acquisition of new ideas which users did not have beforehand. In addition, we found that the system was able to generate MESH programs that subjects could not have come up with on their own.