A Collaborative Support Tool for Divergent Thinking: Idea Storming Cube

Divergent thinking ability plays an important role in many learning activities. In this paper, we propose a game-based collaborative creativity support system called Idea Storming Cube to support divergent thinking and help a user form a perspective-shift thinking habit. The system analyzes the knowledge acquired from the history of user inputs and compares it with the ideas possessed by the domain expert and other users in the current brainstorming group. The system is designed to provide user-, goaland context-sensitive supports with this mechanism that stimulates more divergent thinking. We have implemented the tool with a magic-cube-like game for collaborative idea generation. A preliminary evaluation of the system is also reported in this paper.