New Visualization Method for Research More Organized And Efficient

 

The National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded Action Science Explorer (ASE) allows users to simultaneously search through thousands of academic papers, using a visualization method that determines how papers are connected, for instance, by topic, date, authors, etc.   The goal is to use these connections to identify emerging scientific trends and advances.
Action Science Explorer integrates these many components in order to provide a tool that supports rapid understanding of scientific literature. Users can analyze the network of citations between papers, identify key papers and research clusters, automatically summarize them, dig into the full text of articles to extract context, make annotations, write reviews, and finally export their findings in many of document authoring formats. The researchers hope this infrastructure will enable users to generate readily-consumable surveys of scientific fields.
“We are creating an early warning system for scientific breakthroughs,” said Ben Shneiderman, UI pioneer, a professor at the University of Maryland (UM) and founding director of the UM Human-Computer Interaction Lab.

Action Science Explorer