COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ORGANIZING INFORMATION IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONCEPT MAPS

摘要

Computer-implemented methods and systems enable users to systematically organize various kinds of information utilizing three-dimensional concept maps, in the form of graphical structures shown on a display of a user device. Such information organization enables exploitation of human visual and spatial memory as well as language metaphors and implicit associations generation to facilitate user understanding and memorization of a domain of knowledge.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for graphically organizing information on a user computer device, comprising the steps of:
(a) displaying a graphical structure to a user on a graphical user interface of the user computer device, said graphical structure including a plurality of sides; (b) enabling the user to navigate around the graphical structure using the graphical user interface and to enter one or more subcomponents of said information in at least one of a plurality of sides of the graphical structure such that the subcomponents of information have specified spatial relationships to each other in a given set directions in the graphical structure; (c) enabling the user to decompose at least one subcomponent of information in one of the sides of the graphical structure into an additional graphical structure such that further subcomponents of said at least one subcomponent of information are displayed in each of a plurality of sides of the additional graphical structure, said further subcomponents of information having specified spatial relationships to each other in a given set directions in the additional graphical structure; and (d) enabling the user to edit, move, or add subcomponents of information in or to the graphical structure or additional graphical structure, or modify the spatial relationships of the subcomponents or further subcomponents of the information to each other using the graphical user interface.