Improvement in quality of business ideas by introducing user perspective

Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 409-419

  Wajima, Yuichiro ^a   Washida, Yuichi ^b   Tominaga, Naoki ^c   Ueda, Kazuhiro ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Hakuhodo Inc   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Business idea; Creativity; Future foresight; User innovation; Workshop

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

BUSINESS IDEA; CREATIVITY; FUTURE FORESIGHT; USER INNOVATION; WORKSHOP;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84940316868     PISSN: 13460714     EISSN: 13468030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1527/tjsai.28.409     Document Type: Article

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