Yearly Archives: 2012
Chasing Serendipity in Linked Open Data
On Wednesday 27th June, in the Dundee Contemporary Arts center, some members of the SerenA project team led a workshop exploring the potential for serendipitous connectivity in linked open data (LOD). The semantic web defines a set of principles through which ...
- authoring | data | linked | open | rdf | semantic | serendipity | visualizing | web
The Multi-Coloured Vision of SerenA
We seem to be in the middle of a very busy, exciting spell of SerenA events in Dundee. We're running three events next week as part of Dundee's Small Society Lab; a lunchtime discussion around the controversial 'Can we engineer ...
- Debbie Maxwell | Dundee | Mel Woods | reflection | serendipity | Workshop
Recently, as a part of continuous efforts of exploring social media to support serendipity, we considered the possibility of finding potentially interesting new connections via social media content analysis. In particular, we are interested in spotting non-existent connections among Twitter ...
Small Society Lab 2012: Panel and Workshops
The SerenA Project has been invited to be a partner in this years 'Small Society Lab 2012'. WHAT IS THE SMALL SOCIETY LAB? SSL2012 is a pop up research space to connect art, design and technology and communities situated in the ...
A semantic user model for serendipitous discovery
I've been spending time recently on the design of SerenA's user model. The user model is central to SerenA’s activities so that Serena explores the connections which are most significant to each user as an individual and follows an individual ...
- Discovery | Heriot Watt | LOD | semantic | serendipity | User Model
The Roles & Personalities of SerenA
Here at the SerenA Design Team (based at DJCAD, University of Dundee), we've recently been thinking less about the functionality of SerenA and more about the emotional impact we want SerenA to have. (If you've somehow landed on this page ...
- Companion | Design | Dundee | Experimentation
I'm Dr. Stephann Makri from UCL Interaction Centre and have spent many months interviewing people as part of the SerenA project and asking them to give me their memorable examples of serendipity (which I call 'serendipity stories'). Several of ...
- Creativity | Method | serendipity | Story | UCL
SerenA will run a workshop 'Performing Serendipitous Connections' at Performing Worlds, a public art, performance and education event taking place in a variety of locations across Dundee between 9th - 15th June 2012. Workshop: Performing Serendipitous Connections Lead by: Debbie ...
- Artist | Creativity | Debbie Maxwell | Dundee | Festival | Mel Woods | Workshop
The Digital Human. BBC Radio 4
Mel Woods and the SerenA project will feature in the last programme 'Chance' in BBC Radio 4's The Digital Human series, to be aired on 11th June, at 16.30. The programme will be asking whether it is possible to encounter ...
Serendipity as a Method for Creative Practice
Serendipity in practice has been well-documented in the history of discovery and innovations in science, now, in contemporary digital life there appears to be a resurgence of interest in the fleeting phenomenon. It is that it is more prevalent in ...
- Art | Chance | Creative Practice | Creativity | Mel Woods | Method | serendipity
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