A Dynamic Display System of Scientist Thought

Most academic paper management systems take papers as the basic units instead of the thoughts in papers. And papers are organised in terms of research areas, not scientists, which may fall to satisfy the need of learning a scientist´s thoughts. This paper proposes a dynamic system to display a scientist´s thoughts. A novel way, which is subway map, is applied to display the change of the concepts in a scientist´s thoughts. Users can effectively and intuitively understand the thoughts of a scientist by interacting with the dynamic display system.