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We have developed a table game named Innovators Market Game (IMG) that supports users in thinking up ideas by combining existing products. There are two kinds of players in the game, innovators and investors. While the innovators think up ideas and propose them, the investors criticize the ideas and make decisions as to whether or not they will invest their money in the ideas. In the game, the innovators not only propose ideas, but also improve on ideas that reflect utterances from investors that represent negative impressions. Although ideas that have much money invested in them might be related to negative utterances from investors, the relation has not been previously validated. We have analyzed the communications in the IMG and have found features of communication in which ideas were invested with much money. After a proposal of an idea by an innovator, investors give negative utterances to the innovator. The innovator accepts the negative utterances with positive utterances and improves their ideas. Finally, the investors satisfy the idea with positive utterances and invest highly in the idea.
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Nishihara, Y., Ohsawa, Y. Communication Analysis Focusing on Negative Utterances in Combinatorial Thinking Games. Rev Socionetwork Strat 4, 31–46 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12626-010-0013-y
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