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DELOS
2000
13 years 8 months ago
Serendipitous Information Retrieval
The acquisition of information is generally thought to be deliberately sought using a search or query mechanism or by browsing or scanning an information space. People, however, f...
Elaine G. Toms
JCDL
2011
ACM
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12 years 10 months ago
Serendipitous recommendation for scholarly papers considering relations among researchers
Serendipity occurs when one finds an interesting discovery while searching for something else. In digital libraries, recommendation engines are particularly well-suited for seren...
Kazunari Sugiyama, Min-Yen Kan
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: serendipity and its role in web search
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Jaime Teevan, Paul André, Susan T. Dumais
CHI
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Designing Audio Aura
In this paper, we describe the process behind the design of Audio Aura. The goal of Audio Aura is to provide serendipitous information, via background auditory cues, that is tied ...
Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Maribeth Back, Roy Want, Mich...
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Serendipitous family stories: using findings from a study on family communication to share family history
Storytelling and sharing family histories are important parts of what it means to "be" a family. Based on results from a study on intergenerational communication over a ...
Frank R. Bentley, Sujoy Kumar Chowduhry