1st International Workshop on Encouraging Serendipity in Interactive Systems

Stephann Makri ran the 1st International Workshop on Encouraging Serendipity in Interactive Systems with Ann Blandford, Lori McCay-Peet and Elaine G. Toms. The workshop was held at INTERACT2011, 13th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction on 5th September 2011 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Short video of what this workshop is about in a nutshell…

The workshop involved us identifying key requirements and research challenges for designing and evaluating user-centred systems that aim to encourage serendipity. Rather than involving a series of presentations, the workshop was hands-on and discussion-focused. In the morning, we discussed the current state-of-the-art for understanding serendipity, designing to encourage it and evaluating the success of interactive systems that aim to encourage it. In the afternoon we undertook a group design activity in order to consider how serendipity might be enabled by future technologies.