Enhancing creativity through reorganising mental space concealed in a research notes stack

摘要

In this article, we propose a method and its implementation to aid the process of creative thinking. The objective of this research is to enhance human scientific creativity with computers. In order to aid the process of creative thinking, we have implemented a system named En Passant 2, which stores the user’s research notes and gives the triggers to recall his/her memories in current context. En Passant 2 has a function to deal with indices and a time attribute of the user’s thought explicitly, and shows the user’s notepads related to his/her awareness of the issues.