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"A process of controlled serendipity": An exploratory study of historians' and digital historians' experiences of serendipity in digital environments
2017
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
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We investigate historians' experiences with serendipity in both physical and digital environments through an online survey. ...
Historians also create heuristic methods of using digital tools to integrate elements of serendipity into their research practice. ...
The present paper investigates the following two research questions:
LITERATURE REVIEW: SERENDIPITY IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT Several recent studies investigate the role of serendipity in the digital ...
doi:10.1002/pra2.2017.14505401032
dblp:conf/asist/MartinQ17
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Examination of relationships among serendipity, the environment, and individual differences
2015
Information Processing & Management
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We found some types of digital environments, (e.g., websites, databases, search engines, intranets, social media sites) may be more conducive to serendipity than others, while environments that manifest ...
in which the user is immersed may create a fertile environment for serendipity to occur. ...
Acknowledgements This paper is part of the first author's Ph.D. research on serendipity (McCay-Peet, 2013) . ...
doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2015.02.004
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Exploring Serendipity's Precipitating Conditions
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2011
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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, to understand how to best facilitate serendipity in a digital, information-rich environment. ...
This research will contribute to an emerging field of study -support for serendipity in information systems -that is striving to make our experiences in digital environments richer and more meaningful. ...
Research supported by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), GRAND NCE, CRC, and CFI. Special thanks to my supervisor, Elaine Toms, for her support and guidance. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23768-3_42
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The Influence of Features and Demographics on the Perception of Twitter as a Serendipitous Environment
2016
Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media - HT '16
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Serendipity is broadly defined as an unexpected and valuable experience prompted by an individual's interactions with ideas, information, objects, and phenomena; in digital worlds the challenge to date ...
In this poster we present the early stages of the development of a means to measure whether digital environments such as social media sites and digital libraries have the potential to facilitate serendipity ...
An international set of researchers who have conducted research in the area of serendipity and related constructs were invited to participate in this review of the facets and items. ...
doi:10.1145/2914586.2914609
dblp:conf/ht/McCay-PeetQ16
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Three key affordances for serendipity
2017
Journal of Documentation
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In future research, the framework needs further empirical validation in physical and digital environments. ...
Research implications/limitations -Implications of the framework for designing physical and digital environments with affordances for serendipity are briefly considered. ...
No research has been found that indicates different degrees of diversifiability in physical or digital environments. ...
doi:10.1108/jd-07-2016-0097
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Observing serendipity in digital information environments
2015
Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
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We often interact with digital information environments to find useful information. But sometimes useful information finds us unexpectedly, propelling us in new and exciting directions. ...
We illustrate this approach by discussing implications for the design and evaluation of digital information environments. ...
We found this approach particularly useful for observing serendipity in digital information environments. ...
doi:10.1002/pra2.2015.145052010019
dblp:conf/asist/MakriBCO15
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"Making my own luck": Serendipity strategies and how to support them in digital information environments
2014
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
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my own luck": Serendipity strategies and how to support them in digital information environments. This is the accepted version of the paper. ...
Designing digital information environments to support serendipity can not only provide users with new knowledge, but also propel them in exciting directions they might not otherwise have travelled insurprising ...
This work is supported by the RCUK Digital Economy project SerenA: Chance Encounters in the Space of Ideas (EP/H042741/1 -see www.serena.ac.uk). ...
doi:10.1002/asi.23200
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Changing Chance Encounters: Historians, Serendipity, and the Digital Text
2016
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI
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Twenty academic historians in Southern Ontario were interviewed about their use of e-books and the role of serendipity in their research. ...
Our findings show that serendipity continues to occur in physical environments, most often the stacks. ...
is perceived as a major problem in digital environments. ...
doi:10.29173/cais862
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Glitch Serendipity: Alternative Information Seeking that Leads to Discovery
2022
Creativity and Cognition
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When scientists and artists engage in exploratory research, they can reach new insight through unexpected information encounters. ...
I share the current status of my research along with a concrete example of how digital experiments led to a serendipitous demonstration of nonlinearity in image expression. ...
that occur during research [3] , as well as its potential in information environments [4] . ...
doi:10.1145/3527927.3533729
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Sustainability in Online Video Hosting Services: The Effects of Serendipity and Flow Experience on Prolonged Usage Time
2020
Sustainability
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In addition, we verify the factors of online video platforms that affect perceived serendipity, such as enabled connections, introduced unexpected information, and induced curiosity. ...
The implication of research and discussions provides references for online video hosting service providers in marketing and operations. ...
From the above, we infer when users have serendipity in the digital environment, they will feel happy. ...
doi:10.3390/su12031271
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Television distraction and the performance of introverts and extroverts
1994
Applied Cognitive Psychology
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In addition, we give a short introduction into our research project Blended Library and describe the idea of an "Interactive Reading" environment that aims toward "encouraging serendipity in interactive ...
In this paper we state our interest in the workshop themes according to the three categories understanding, designing, and evaluation. ...
We are especially concerned with the research question: How can emerging technology facilitate knowledge workers in collecting and sense-making of data gained through serendipity supportive environments ...
doi:10.1002/acp.2350080708
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Rethinking tradition: The loss of serendipity and the impact of technology on the historical research process
2011
Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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The move towards the digital humanities will see a growing interest in tools such as Ebooks. ...
Findings indicate that historians feel the digital environment makes chances of a serendipitous encounter with a text unlikely. ...
This research makes it clear that serendipity plays an important role in the traditional research practices of historians. ...
doi:10.1002/meet.2011.14504801244
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Serendipity in the Stacks: Libraries, Information Architecture, and the Problems of Accidental Discovery
2015
College and Research Libraries
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While acknowledging its benefits, this essay draws on research in library science, information systems, and other fields to argue that, in two important respects, this form of discovery can be usefully ...
Serendipity in the library stacks is generally regarded as a positive occurrence. ...
of the information environments in which serendipity can occur. ...
doi:10.5860/crl.76.6.831
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A Review of Research Methodologies Employed in Serendipity Studies in the Context of Information Research
2021
Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems
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in serendipity research. ...
The concept of serendipity has become increasingly interesting for those undertaking serendipity research in recent years. ...
in a digital environment. ...
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From Chance to Serendipity: Knowledge Workers' Experiences of Serendipitous Social Encounters
2020
Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
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Finally, we discuss the seemingly minor role of technology in social serendipity and research avenues to computationally enhance social serendipity. ...
In professional life, social serendipity might result in benefits such as fruitful collaboration, successful recruitment, discovery of novel information, and acquisition of crucial new perspectives from ...
To summarize, diversifiability and traversability manifest in both physical and digital environments and have stronger effects in the latter due to the ease of accessing and manipulating information. ...
doi:10.1155/2020/1827107
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