InspirationWall

Abstract

Collaborative idea generation leverages social interactions and knowledge sharing to spark diverse associations and produce creative ideas. Information exploration systems expand the current context by suggesting novel but related concepts. In this paper we introduce InspirationWall, an unobtrusive display that leverages speech recognition and information exploration to enhance an ongoing idea generation session with automatically retrieved concepts that relate to the conversation. We evaluated the system in six idea generation sessions of 20 minutes with small groups of two people. Preliminary results suggest that InspirationWall contrasts the decay of idea productivity over time and can thus represent an effective way to enhance idea generation activities.

AI-Assisted Causal Pathway Diagram for Human-Centered Design

“…These tools are not specific to the design context and often just contain inspirational images or words [30,47], or provocative concepts [92]. Others support brainstorming by suggesting additional relevant ideas based on a set of existing ideas inputted by the user [4,5,14,19,33,34,67,94,95]. Often, these tools help surface inspirational stimuli by varying the analogical distance, commonness, and modality of the example ideas [15,18,60,105,107].…”

Crowdboard

“…For example Idea Expander supports group brainstorming by intelligently selecting pictorial stimuli based on the group's conversation [38]. Similarly InspirationWall [3] uses automatic speech recognition to monitor users' discussions and automatically suggests keywords to support idea generation. Although those approaches attempt to intelligently provide inspirations based on the topic currently being discussed, automated methods have limited intelligence.…”

“…The crowd's creative and diverse input would help in-person ideators to avoid missing important opportunities in early design stages where the cost of a large deviation from an initial idea is not prohibitive. One promising strategy for team support during brainstorming is to provide different sources of inspiration through context-aware provocative stimuli [3,38]. Nonexpert crowds could provide a more effective source of inspiration through a better-contextualized and more creative input.…”

Live Participation

“…Chat contents and open-ended answers could be summarized with real-time tag and keyword clouds. With speech-to-text analysis, content in the mediated space could be highlighted based on what the performer is talking at a given time (e.g., [1]). Also if several audience members submit similar content in a short time period, this could be brought up more strongly, for example, by grouping and highlighting these contributions.…”