Personalizing information in a conversation support environment for
facilitating collaborative concept formation and information sharing
We spend much time daily in meeting and informal conversation in
collaborative work for research, business activities, and so on. The
creativity of groups is often enhanced by the effects of collaborative
concept formation and information sharing during conversations. This
paper proposes a system -- Augmented Informative Discussion
Environment (AIDE) -- that facilitates creative conversation. AIDE is
an online chat system seamlessly integrated with techniques for
visualizing information structure and information
retrieval. Specifically, this paper explains the personalization of
shared information when using AIDE and proposes a method of
visualizing the relationships between multiple participants'
viewpoints acquired from these personalized information spaces.