Authors: Howard R. Moskowitz, Stephen Rappaport, Sunaina Saharan, Angelica DiLorenzo.
The paper introduces Idea Coach, a new approach to generating questions about a topic. Idea Coach emerged from the need to ‘coach’ users in Mind Genomics studies, where the requirement is to create four questions which ‘tell a story’ and then four answers to each question. Many novice users find this requirement onerous, abandoning the project. Idea Coach guides the set-up, making the task easier. Idea Coach was then expanded to a virtually stand-alone process to teach critical thinking. The user need only write the question and some elaboration about the nature of the answer. Idea Coach returns with sets of 15 questions, these sets providing an education on the topic. Afterwards, Idea Coach provides a set of AI-based summarizations on each set of questions, further helping the user think critically about the topic.
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