1. Introduction of
support tool to flight-thinking
Feb. 18th, 2009, given at Yahoo! Japan by
Developers Designers
安川 要平 福島 朋樹
Leader
(Yohei Yasukawa) (Tomoki Fukushima)
伊藤 恭英
Other Members 西野 正雄
平 勇樹
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2. Background
 Example Situations
 You have to think new ideas for weekend's game,
but a note in front of you is pure white.
 Although you desire making it fun and interesting,
such ideas don't come up with at all.
 For breaking through a big wall of creativity, you
wanna investigate it from various collected ideas.
 Just create something new!
But, how to make something new？
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3. Background
The column of “Pick a Word, Any Word”
suggested an approach to create it
（Carl D. Cravens in RPG.net）
 Approach
 Flashing an idea using aggregated info
 Ex. If wanna know of new-fashioned names,
looking over address books, name-list of babies.
 Getting crucial ideas from a lot of information that
are seen by chance.
This is a base concept of tango!
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4. Background
Why is eventuality needed？
Traditional ways of brainstorming
can be expansion of thinking, but
cannot be flight of thinking.
e.g. Food × War
The web application creating 'NEW' from never
imagined pair of words is
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5. tango! overview
What can「 」do?
→just picking up info randomly from aggregations
 Basic Functions:
 Display details of word in pop-up window
 Can select conditions to pick up:
Length of words
Word category: noun, verb, adjective
Partial match words
http://tango-old.appspot.com/
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6. tango! overview
 Advanced Functions:
 Featuring with “Nico-ranker”: RSS tango!
 Able to pick up from not only dictionaries.
 Save your favorite words: Saved tango!
 Can collect words used for flight-thinking.
 Share your saved words with users: Share tango!
 Help breakthrough by collaborating with others.
 Can contact any user if you want.
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7. Demonstration
Demonstration of tango!
(screen-shots)
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8. Demonstration
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9. Demonstration
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10. Demonstration
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11. Future Issue
Use-cases of
Pro.: as a source of ideas
Ama.: as a training tool of thinking
→ tango! is now developing application.
There are some future developments.
 Add new conditions or source of information
 'Name', 'Food', 'positive/negative' conditions may be added.
 'proverb', 'idiom' may be added into database.
 Expanding Share tango!, make Game tango!.
 Ex. Make a sentence using given words within 20 sec, then the
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Cf. 'kotono-pa! Online' http://splax.net/game/ktp_online.html

12. Summary
 Background
 Expansion of thinking → Flight of thinking
 tango!'s Functions
 used when you want new crucial ideas
 Basic functions are now run on the URL below
http://tango-old.appspot.com/
 RSS tango! can expand a type of resources
 Share tango! help collaboration with others
 Future Issue
 Expanding Share tango!, Game tango! can be
developed, where users make 'new' from game.
12 ※ If you are interested in developing or designing, please visit↓
http://groups.google.com/group/tango_project

13. Other slides for supplement
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14. tango!の概要
新規性：フレームワークの前段階
 個人の思考能力に託される
 tango!は与えられた条件で言葉を提供するのみ。どうい
う経路を辿るか, どのような結果にたどりつくかはその
人次第
 効果(Effect):
 ひらめき誘発剤
 偶発的に発生した単語×単語による新しいひらめき
 条件付き抽出でさらに効率よく
 思考の訓練
 一見関係のない言葉と言葉を繋げようとする試みによって,新た
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15. tango!のシステム構成
Developing Environment
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Google Web Toolkit 1.5.3

Cypal for studio

Eclipse jee-ganymede-SR1-win32

Apache Derby
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Java SDK 1.6.0

TomCat 6.0
使用したAPI:
Yahoo! API 形態素解析

16. tango!のシステム構成
辞書データ配列の構造体
読み方 【表記】―説明 整列前辞書データ(あ.txt～ん.txt)
読み方 （表記）―説明 String.split(“【” |“】”|“（”|“）
① 表記.length()
② 読み方.replace(“ ”,””)
① ② ③ ④ ③ そのままコピー
④ 説明.replace(“―”,””)
文字数,読み方,表記,説明
整列後一時辞書データ(wordList.csv)
⑤ そのままコピー
⑤ ⑤ ⑤ ⑤ ⑥ ⑥ YahooUI形態素解析
文字数,読み方,表記,説明,品詞 整列後辞書データ(wordList.txt)
String.split(“,”)で分割し
ArrayListに格納して使用
整列前辞書データ出展：もじぴったんDB
http://www.geocities.jp/koterikotte/moji/tango2/tango.html

17. word tango!のWidget配置
Dock Panel
Header Panel
Dock Panel
Setting Panel Scroll
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O Tango Word Word
Relational Word
P Level Class
Word Table
Box Box
Word Panel Table
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E ・・・・・・・・・・・・
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T ・
E ・
・ Word Panel
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Footer Panel