For the validation of the first part of our hypothesis we
asked the participants whether Alan was able to find
content related to the user’s idea (without explicitly
asking for supporting content), whether he found new
content which was unknown to the user, and if he was
able to explicitly support the idea generation. The
majority of the participants answered that they agree
(p=7) and strongly agree (p=5) that Alan was able to
find content, which is related to the idea. One
participant neither agreed nor disagreed (neutral) on
this question and one disagreed. Similar results
emerged at the questions as to whether Alan was able
to find new and unknown content. Three strongly
agreed, seven agreed and three were neutral. One
participant disagreed. Fewer participants agreed (p=2)
or strongly agreed (p=6) that Alan was able to find
explicit supporting content. Two participants disagreed
on this question and four neither agreed nor disagreed
(neutral). The following table shows the questions for
the first part of our hypothesis, whether the artifact was