Creative idea support for eccentric person - integrated framework of heuristics and personality -

• Project/Area Number: 26540173
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: Kanto Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: Mitsuharu Watanabe 関東学院大学, 経営学部, 教授 (30329205)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
• Keywords: 創造性 / 発想法 / エキセントリック / パーソナリティ / 発想方略 / 発想

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The researcher interviewed eccentric people with questionnaires and asked them to generate innovative ideas. At that time, the researcher also asked their personalities and systematic strategies/ heuristics for generating the innovative ideas, by suggesting computational processes such as classification, reasoning, learning, and by translating those processes to more common/ daily and comprehensive words. It was found that personality related to eccentric creativity converges into almost one dimension and on the other hand, that the strategy/ heuristics for generating ideas are divergent. It is remarkable that creative eccentric people adopt multi strategy/ heuristics for generating ideas simultaneously at a certain opportunity. Also two factors of meta - cognitive function are suggested, namely control of attention (to a target/ opportunity) and emotion.