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CANDC
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Discovery is never by chance: designing for (un)serendipity
Serendipity has a long tradition in the history of science as having played a key role in many significant discoveries. Computer scientists, valuing the role of serendipity in dis...
Paul André, m. c. schraefel, Jaime Teevan, ...
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 1 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