Abstract
Scientific creativity and innovation represent the beating heart of European growth at a time of rapid technological change. Dr Inventor is built on the vision that technologies have great potential to supplement human ingenuity in science by overcoming the limitations that people suffer in pursuing scientific discovery. It presents an original system that will provide inspiration for scientific creativity by utilising the rich presence of web-based research resources. Dr Inventor will act as a personal research assistant, utilising machine-empowered search and computation to bring researchers extended perspectives for scientific innovation by informing them of a broad spectrum of relevant research concepts and approaches, by assessing the novelty of research ideas, and by offering suggestions of new concepts and workflows with unexpected features for new scientific discovery. Dr Inventor is an attempt to understand the potential of technology in the scientific creative process within current technology limitations. It represents a sound balance between scientific insight into individual scientific creative processes and technical implementation using innovative technologies in information extraction, document summarization, semantics and visual analytics. The outcomes will be integrated into a web-based system that will allow evaluation in a selected research area under real-world settings with carefully designed metrics, benchmarks and baseline for creative performance, leading to tangible measurements on the performance of the technologies in enhancing human creativity and a blueprint for future technologies in computational creativity. Dr Inventor has huge implications for scientific innovation in Europe, as it has the potential to change the way in which scientific research is undertaken. The acceptance of the system by general research communities will open opportunities for many industrial sectors, leading to reinforced leadership of European industry.
Highlights
Professor Feng Dong is the coordinator of an exciting research project that marries scientific creativity and innovation to supplement human ingenuity in science
He describes his background, the inspirations behind this unique undertaking, and how collaboration plays a vital role in the success of the project
I was awarded my PhD from Zhejiang University in China, where I became a member of the academic staff at the State Key Lab of CAD and Computer Graphics, the leading computer graphics lab in China
Summary
Supplement human ingenuity in science, thereby opening up new areas of thinking and hopefully fuel new breakthroughs and discoveries. Professor Feng Dong is the coordinator of an exciting research project that marries scientific creativity and innovation to supplement human ingenuity in science. He describes his background, the inspirations behind this unique undertaking, and how collaboration plays a vital role in the success of the project. Scientific innovation is still largely reliant on human brains Modern technologies, such as information extraction, document summarisation, semantic web and visual analytics have great potential for supplementing human ingenuity by overcoming the limitations that people suffer in their efforts towards creativity, such as limited knowledge and inherent thinking barriers. All the necessary technology components are integrated into a web-based platform, which we have made available It targets computer graphics researchers by allowing them to do three specific things. The platform is available to the public at http://drinventor.ccgv.org.uk/Div/login www.impact.pub 41
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