A system to visualize different viewpoints for supporting researchers' creativity

摘要

In this paper we describe a system to visualize different viewpoints for supporting researchers' creativity. The system has a text database composed of journal and conference papers. It elicits the viewpoints of the papers automatically and visualizes the semantic relations between them. By using it the users can find new viewpoints on their own research and form creative ideas. To evaluate the system, we carried out the user studies not only for creativity aid but also for communication aid and information retrieval, and confirmed its effectiveness.