What current research is being conducted on AI for blind people? What is the question asking? Do you have any preexisting knowledge of the topic?
What current research is being conducted on AI for blind people? How do we define current here? Is anything missing? Are we looking for certain AI powered devices? Are we looking for people with specific types of vision loss (retinal, neurological)?
What current research is being conducted on AI for blind people?
Using synonyms for search terms can retrieve additional relevant results.
E.g. AI = artificial intelligence, machine intelligence, artificial cognition, knowledge engineering
Blind people = blindness, visually impaired, Amaurosis, "low vision," Anopsia, visual dysfunction
By combining keywords and phrases with AND, we are search for both together. For example:
AI AND blindness | "Artificial intelligence" AND "visual impairment"
Use OR to search for synonyms or broaden the search. Using OR produces results with either term. For example:
"Artificial cognition" OR AI
Use NOT to exclude terms from your search results
Using NOT excludes results that you do not want included in your search, providing narrower results. I
"machine learning" NOT "deep learning"
To search an exact phrase, enclose the terms inside “quotation marks.” If the phrase is typed without quotation marks, the search results will include each word individually. This creates a massive number of irrelevant results.
“data mining” | “internet of things” | “big data”
Use an asterisk * to shorten a term to include variations.
spectro* = spectroscopy, spectroscopic, spectroscope, spectrometer. Not spectrum
*Not every word is conducive for truncation. For example, stor* will return results with story, store, storm, and storage.
Wildcard searching uses a question mark ? to substitute for one letter. This is useful for maximizing searches with terms like wom?n, which will return results including woman and women. Another example: c?sium = cesium, caesium
Create personal accounts in frequently used databases to save searches and schedule alerts for specific topics.
Be patient and give yourself ample time to explore your topic in different ways and various databases.
Acronyms that have more than one use can return large numbers of irrelevant results.
SST = Supersonic transport, Smart systems and technologies, sea surface temperature
Databases have different rules related to searching. They will typically have an easily accessible guide and/or indicate when a particular search type in invalid.