IdeaProcessor

Welcome to IdeaProcessor, a technology designed to assist members of a group to emerge, organize and share their ideas and knowledge.

Intelligence, according to the Webster On-line dictionary, is related to the capacity to make relationships between things. IdeaProcessor augments that capacity. (1)

To work with IdeaProcessor, you use work environments, GraphicBoards and Contexts - which have a graphic surface and a column tool bar.

With IdeaProcessor, you may work with text, graphs or multimedia and share your interpretations with other participants in the game of constructing a social meaning that may guide the action of the group.

IdeaProcessor is a very flexible knowledge engineering atelier or workshop.

The user interface takes the form of an idea editor and the display of their relationships. The emphasis is placed on flexibility. The user may, at any time, edit, modify or restructure ideas.

The user has three environments or phases: the informal or sketch, the modeling and the operational or instantiation phase.

The system produces statistics of the session as well as a log file. It also creates a file that allows the users to continue the work later on and reuse the ideas already discussed.

IdeaProcessor is based on an Ontology of idea sharing and a graphic language that are very easy to use. It is composed of a classification of thing and relationship families. The system has a knowledge base which helps the user make the relationships between things. This way, the cognitive work is greatly accelerated.

As participants work, a structure emerges which is enacted. It is possible to visualize it with the ContextBoard, which shows the structure generated during the work session in a tree form.

The system also has Browsers or Navigators to surf the knowledge base that has been built. It also produces lexicons and outlines. The system facilitates the exploration of global or partial paths between ideas. It also allows the search of ideas on the base. The study and analysis of argumentation is therefore facilitated.

The notion of context and knowledge in a context is important in IdeaProcessor. Each graphic environment represent a context. The ContextBoard provides a global view of contexts as a dependency tree.

These are some examples of facilitated tasks:

Knowledge management,
work groups,
planning,
knowledge acquisition,
brainstorming,
production of qualitative models,
dialogue between different domain experts,
idea modeling,
process modeling and documentation,
knowledge base modeling,
idea clarification,
problem visualization,
problem solving,
task analysis,
strategy construction,
argument preparation,
text and interview analysis,
complex document preparation,
qualitative analysis,
collaborative work over the net,
procedure and method documentation,
obtaining consensus,
complexity reduction (renders easy and concrete what is complex and abstract),
innovation,
relational thinking,
decision making.

more about facilitating communication with IdeaProcessor

(1) (in.tel.li.gence\in-'tel-*-j*n(t)s\ n often attrib 1a1: the capacity to apprehend facts and propositions and their relations and to reason about them).

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