Exercise(s) 2: A potpourri of scientific use cases

For each of the following exercises, pls. evaluate the service in regard to the suitability for your individual research and for science in general. Also, provide a brief summary of your experience in general.

We prepared a collaborative document for this exercise where you can share your experience with the others.

Feel free to also try out other tools mentioned in our overview and other tasks as well.

Brainstorming with GenAi - Overcome writer’s block¶

This prompt can help you get past so-called writer’s block by offering you some ideas that can inspire you to start your assignment:

Take on the role of an expert in brainstorming. I want you to help me
brainstorm on the theme [insert theme]. Take the role of a brainstorming expert
in this area. Ask me what task I want to brainstorm about and what goal I want
to achieve. Then, give me concrete ideas and explain why each one is a good idea
in relation to the goal. Ask me if everything is clear enough or if I would like
to expand on any of the ideas.

1. Optional: Register for the GenAI of your choice
2. Try it out with a GenAI of your choice
3. Try it out with several GenAIs and compare results and the process to get there

(Source: https://aivoorstudenten.be/en/courses/ai-voor-studenten/lessons/brainstormen-2/)

Mindmap from PDFs with Claude.AI¶

1. Register at https://claude.ai/
2. Upload the PDF downloaded from Dawson et al. (2024) to Claude.
3. create a Mermaid code visual based on the themes addressed in the attached article.
4. Copy the resulting code to https://mermaid.live/edit

(Based on https://aivoorstudenten.be/en/courses/ai-voor-studenten/lessons/visualiseren/)

Literature exploration/search with Consensus / SCISPACE / Undermind / ORKG¶

1. Optional: Register at the mentioned service (for Undermind it is necessary)
2. Ask a research question of your choice or choose one of the suggested questions (e.g. how does climate change impact biodiversity?)
3. Evaluate and (in case) compare the services
4. If and how would you incorporate the tool into your research routine?

Explore an article and related work with LitMaps / ConnectedPapers¶

1. Optional: Register at the mentioned service
2. Explore an article of your choice and its related work (example from above: Dawson et al. (2024))
3. Evaluate and (in case) compare the services
4. If and how would you incorporate the tool into your research routine?

Summarize a Paper using Scholarcy / Elicit¶

1. Optional: Register at the mentioned service
2. Summarize an article of your choice (e.g. example from above: Dawson et al. (2024)) (Scholarcy: More -> Article Summarizer -> Add Paper) (Elicit: Extract Data from PDFs)
3. Evaluate and (in case) compare the services
4. If and how would you incorporate the tool into your research routine?