An approach to support long-term creative thinking in everyday life

Most of prior creativity support systems aimed to support to generate ideas efficiently in the situation restricted in time and space. In this paper, we propose a novel method and its implementation to support long-term ideageneration in everyday life. In order to understand actual idea-generation, we have carried out a cognitive diary study. Based on the results, we have designed a system consisting of two components: a management system for problems and ideas named IdeaManager; and a personal information storage system named iBox. On the timing when information is stocked in iBox, iBox searches related problems and ideas in IdeaManager and presents the result if any. Its aim is to support non-intentional idea-generation.