テキストオブジェクトを空間配置することによる思考支援システム

In this paper, we present a system for computer-aided thinking. We propose the idea of reflecting the mental world indirectly in a metric space, and thereby supporting human thinking activity such as construction and creation of new ideas. We use a method of mapping text-objects into metric spaces in order to deal with texts. Results of experiments using our implemented system, named CAT1 (Computer-Aided Thinking, version 1), are given. We show that a user of our system can get effective stimuli to his/her further thinking. The paper also gives a discussion about potential of the CAT1 to be used for group works.