Group supporting apparatus for recognizing density of discussions and activity levels of individuals and related computer readable recording medium

• US 10,229,392 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2016
• Issued: 03/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Mayumi, Hidehiko, Tanaka, Toshio, Kobayashi, Takeaki, Nabae, Takehiro, Sakata, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Syed, Farhan M
• Application Number:
  US15/233,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20160350717A1
• Time in Patent Office: 944 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/358 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/103 Workflow collaboration or project management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/20 Education
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student

Abstract

A group supporting apparatus and related computer readable recording medium to execute a process including: collecting input contents, which are input by participants via terminals, from the terminals; arranging the collected input contents into input content groups based on groups to which the participants belong; setting a representative flag on each of representative input contents selected from the respective input content groups; extracting the representative input contents and matching input contents, which match a predetermined extracting condition and are different from the representative input contents, from the collected input contents; and displaying a list of the representative input contents and the matching input contents on a display device that all the participants are able to view at a same time.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that causes a computer to execute a process comprising:

displaying an agenda at multiple terminals;

collecting input contents being input by participants with respect to the agenda displayed at the multiple terminals, through the terminals;

displaying, at the multiple terminals, a screen including the input contents being collected for each of groups to which the participants belong, the screen allowing sending a representative input content with respect to a leader terminal used by a leader among terminals of each group;

specifying representative input contents, which are selected from the input contents being displayed for the groups, respectively, upon receiving the representative input contents from leader terminals respective to the groups;

displaying a list, in which the representative input contents are listed for the groups;

determining, for each of the groups based on predetermined keywords corresponding to categories and a determination condition for determining an activity level, that the activity level is high, in response to a number of input keywords that satisfies the determination condition, the input keywords being included in the predetermined keywords and contained in the input contents being collected;

specifying one or more groups each in which the activity level is high, based on the determined activity level; and

displaying, on a display device, existence of one or more other input contents included in the input contents by one or more first areas outside a second area of each of the specified one or more groups among the representative input contents corresponding to the groups in the list, each of the one or more first areas being smaller than the second area displaying the representative input content for each of the specified one or more groups.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1,

wherein the process further includes:

referring to a determination database storing the categories of the input contents and the predetermined keywords corresponding to the categories; and

identifying one or more of the groups whose input contents include a predetermined number or more of the predetermined keywords stored in the determination database.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2,

wherein in the identifying, one or more of the groups whose input contents include the predetermined number of the predetermined keywords that correspond to the categories other than the categories corresponding to the representative input contents are identified.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1,

wherein the process further includes:

acquiring a log of communications between the terminals for each of the groups;

storing the log in a log database; and

identifying one or more of the groups whose log includes a number of characters that is greater than or equal to a predetermined value.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2,

wherein the process further includes:

displaying opposing input contents, which are input contents that include the predetermined keywords corresponding to a category that is opposite to the category of the representative input contents, on the display device; and

displaying related input contents, which are input contents that include the predetermined keywords corresponding to a category that is related to the category of the representative input contents, on the display device.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 2,

wherein the input contents of the participants belonging to one of the groups are displayed next to each other on the terminals of the participants.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 5,

wherein on the display device, the representative input contents or the opposing or related input contents are displayed on a same display area by selecting one of tabs corresponding to the representative input contents and the opposing or related input contents.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 5,

wherein on the display device, the representative input contents and the opposing or related input contents are displayed in different display areas.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1,

wherein the process further includes:

extracting the input contents of a participant whose representing number, which indicates a number of times that a representative flag is set, is less than or equal to a predetermined value; and

displaying, on the display device, the extracted input contents by associating with the representative input contents in the list of the representative input contents.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 9,

wherein, when the input contents of the participant are displayed as the one or more other input contents on the display device, the representing number of the participant is increased in a representing number database.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the representative input contents are listed in a matrix format and are displayed on the display device.

11. A group supporting apparatus comprising:

a processor that executes a process including

displaying an agenda at multiple terminals;

collecting input contents being input by participants with respect to the agenda displayed at the multiple terminals, through the terminals;

displaying, at the multiple terminals, a screen including the input contents being collected for each of groups to which the participants belong, the screen allowing sending a representative input content with respect to a leader terminal used by a leader among terminals of each group;

specifying representative input contents, which are selected from the input contents being displayed for the groups, respectively, upon receiving the representative input contents from leader terminals respective to the groups;

displaying a list, in which the representative input contents are listed for the groups;

determining, for each of the groups based on predetermined keywords corresponding to categories and a determination condition for determining an activity level, that the activity level is high, in response to a number of input keywords that satisfies the determination condition, the input keywords being included in the predetermined keywords and contained in the input contents being collected;

specifying one or more groups each in which the activity level is high, based on the determined activity level; and

displaying, on a display device, existence of one or more other input contents included in the input contents by one or more first areas outside a second area of each of the specified one or more groups among the representative input contents corresponding to the groups in the list, each of the one or more first areas being smaller than the second area displaying the representative input content for each of the specified one or more groups.

12. The group supporting apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the process further includes:

referring to a determination database storing the categories of the input contents and the predetermined keywords corresponding to the categories; and

identifying one or more of the groups whose input contents include a predetermined number or more of the predetermined keywords stored in the determination database.

13. The group supporting apparatus according to claim 12, wherein in the identifying, one or more of the groups whose input contents include the predetermined number of the predetermined keywords that correspond to the categories other than the categories corresponding to the representative input contents are identified.

14. The group supporting apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the process further includes:

acquiring a log of communications between the terminals for each of the groups;

storing the log in a log database; and

identifying one or more of the groups whose log includes a number of characters that is greater than or equal to a predetermined value.

15. The group supporting apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the process further includes:

displaying opposing input contents, which are input contents that include the predetermined keywords corresponding to a category that is opposite to the category of the representative input contents, on the display device; and

displaying related input contents, which are input contents that include the predetermined keywords corresponding to a category that is related to the category of the representative input contents, on the display device.

16. The group supporting apparatus according to claim 12,

wherein the input contents of the participants belonging to one of the groups are displayed next to each other on the terminals of the participants.

17. The group supporting apparatus according to claim 15,

wherein on the display device, the representative input contents or the opposing or related input contents are displayed on a same display area by selecting one of tabs corresponding to the representative input contents and the opposing or related input contents.

18. The group supporting apparatus according to claim 15,

wherein on the display device, the representative input contents and the opposing or related input contents are displayed in different display areas.

19. The group supporting apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the process further includes:

extracting the input contents of a participant whose representing number, which indicates a number of times that a representative flag is set, is less than or equal to a predetermined value; and

displaying, on the display device, the extracted input contents by associating with the representative input contents in the list of the representative input contents.

20. The group supporting apparatus according to claim 19,

wherein, when the input contents of the participant are displayed as the one or more other input contents on the display device, the representing number of the participant is increased in a representing number database.