We have developed web based tool that will support human’s creativity while solving some simple or complex problems. The application’s user interface allows the user to generate ideas of how the problem could be solved. The ideas could be generated manually (when the user introduces an idea by himself) or automatically (when search engines are used).
For automatic generations of the ideas are used web services which are publicly available, these services are Google Sets, Google Products and Microsoft Bing Images.
Our WebBrainstorming Tool implements the creativity support techniques which are already existing as such and are widely used in non-computerized environment but rather in groups or in single sessions. The techniques are: brainstorming, random input and random image.
The tool is developed using Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, which is a standard for Rich Internet Applications. The application could be used by one or several users simultaneously. Here are some print-screens of the interface where the ideas are represented in blue nodes, and the whole screen is populated with ideas:
This project was developed as a part of master thesis and it was presented on two science conference with two separate paper articles:
- YU INFO 2009 Conference,Kopaonik, Republic of Serbia, March 8-11, 2009 (title of the paper: WEB TOOL FOR BRAINSTORMING – SOFTWARE TOOL FOR GENERATING IDEAS)
- ETAI 2009 Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, September 26-29,2009 (title of the paper: CREATIVITY SUPPORT TOOL – CONCEPT FAN WITH GOOGLE SERVICES )
Today it is used on the Faculty of Informatics Science and Computer Engineering – Skopje, and it is used as a tool for generating ideas for creating the name and the skeleton of a seminar and diploma papers.
Try it on-line.
Watch tutorials on-line how to: