Patent ID: 7596537

Claim:
A computer implemented system for facilitating, evaluating, and guiding user development of thinking about an arbitrary problem, comprising: processor executable instructions embodied in a computer readable storage medium, computer readable device, or memory, or a combination thereof, said instructions comprising: instructions to facilitate user specification and population of at least one problem structure, or at least one conclusion structure, or both, related to the arbitrary problem, said conclusion specification related to the problem specification when both occur; instructions to facilitate user specification and population of at least one knowledge structure, related to the problem specification, the conclusion specification, or both; instructions to persuade user interaction and specification to a series of interactions within a predefined set of interaction sequences, wherein the predefined set of interactions define an archetype process for user thinking about the arbitrary problem; instructions to construct a user model structure comprising user development of the problem structure, conclusion structure, and knowledge structure; instructions to display or output a resulting user structure; instructions to evaluate user actions relative to the archetype process or an exemplary archetype model structure, or both, and to provide suggestions to the user regarding actions to take in developing their thinking about an arbitrary problem, in display or output.