Kurt Beecher, VP of Exhibit Development at The Museum of Innovation and Science (miSci) at Schenectady in New York was preparing for an exhibition focused on optical illusions. The objective was to take the visitors through a visual, sensory, and educational experience while being entertaining with the science of optical illusion. 

As Kurt was researching in preparation for the exhibition, he found that there’s a quite a bit of disagreement within the research community over why optical illusions happens. In his words, “I happen to be relatively capable with research but medical research, rich in its jargon, is not my field – especially, when I didn’t know what I was looking for to begin with”. 

Kurt uploaded a few documents in the field of optical illusion in Researchwork.ai. He said, “it was either the 2nd or the 3rd document that I ran through researchwork.ai that pulled out a couple of terms right on the top line takeaways that ended up being very useful to me because it quickly identified parts of the brain that should be the focus”. It identified a part of brain called the parahippocampal gyrus, which immediately led him to sources to better understand on how our brain works with vision. 

The biggest value of researchwork.ai, according to Kurt is when researchers are confronted with a large amount of potentially, jargonistic, subject specific knowledge that they need to drive through very quickly, find answer to questions that are not forthcoming, and understand the ideas from multiple related documents.  Further, Kurt said that “It is very important to me, especially in the capacity as a Science Museum, which obviously imposes the highest of standards of public trust, to have a correct answer when people ask questions. Researchwork.ai works very well for me and I always have it with me as my go-to tool.”