The practice of biologically inspired design requires access to general biological knowledge. In this paper, we describe AskEOL, a question-answering tool for accessing biologicalknowledge from Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), the world’s largestknowledgebase of biological taxa AskEOL operates in the context of a virtual research assistant, Vera, that provides an interactive environment for building conceptual models of ecological systems and runs experimental simulations on those models.
An, S., Bates, R., Hammock J., Rugaber, S., Weigel, E., & Goel, A. (2019) Cognitive Assistance for Inquiry‐based Modeling. Poster presented at the 7th Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS), Cambridge, Aug 2019.