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BioSpark: Beyond Analogical Inspiration to LLM-augmented Transfer
Hyeonsu Kang, David Chuan-en Lin, Yan-Ying Chen +3
We present BioSpark, a system for analogical innovation designed to act as a creativity partner in reducing the cognitive effort in finding, mapping, and creatively adapting divers…
Inkspire: Supporting Design Exploration with Generative AI through Analogical Sketching
David Chuan-En Lin, Hyeonsu B. Kang, Nikolas Martelaro +3
With recent advancements in the capabilities of Text-to-Image (T2I) AI models, product designers have begun experimenting with them in their work. However, T2I models struggle to i…
Mitigating Barriers to Public Social Interaction with Meronymous Communication
Nouran Soliman, Hyeonsu B Kang, Matthew Latzke +4
In communities with social hierarchies, fear of judgment can discourage communication. While anonymity may alleviate some social pressure, fully anonymous spaces enable toxic behav…
BioSpark: An End-to-End Generative System for Biological-Analogical Inspirations and Ideation
Hyeonsu B. Kang, David Chuan-En Lin, Nikolas Martelaro +3
Nature is often used to inspire solutions for complex engineering problems, but achieving its full potential is challenging due to difficulties in discovering relevant analogies an…
Synergi: A Mixed-Initiative System for Scholarly Synthesis and Sensemaking
Hyeonsu B. Kang, Sherry Tongshuang Wu, Joseph Chee Chang +1
Efficiently reviewing scholarly literature and synthesizing prior art are crucial for scientific progress. Yet, the growing scale of publications and the burden of knowledge make s…
The Semantic Reader Project: Augmenting Scholarly Documents through AI-Powered Interactive Reading Interfaces
Kyle Lo, Joseph Chee Chang, Andrew Head +52
Scholarly publications are key to the transfer of knowledge from scholars to others. However, research papers are information-dense, and as the volume of the scientific literature…
ComLittee: Literature Discovery with Personal Elected Author Committees
Hyeonsu B. Kang, Nouran Soliman, Matt Latzke +2
In order to help scholars understand and follow a research topic, significant research has been devoted to creating systems that help scholars discover relevant papers and authors.…
Threddy: An Interactive System for Personalized Thread-based Exploration and Organization of Scientific Literature
Hyeonsu B. Kang, Joseph Chee Chang, Yongsung Kim +1
Reviewing the literature to understand relevant threads of past work is a critical part of research and vehicle for learning. However, as the scientific literature grows the challe…
Augmenting Scientific Creativity with an Analogical Search Engine
Hyeonsu B. Kang, Xin Qian, Tom Hope +3
Analogies have been central to creative problem-solving throughout the history of science and technology. As the number of scientific papers continues to increase exponentially, th…
Scaling Creative Inspiration with Fine-Grained Functional Aspects of Ideas
Tom Hope, Ronen Tamari, Hyeonsu Kang +4
Large repositories of products, patents and scientific papers offer an opportunity for building systems that scour millions of ideas and help users discover inspirations. However,…