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Can serendipity be harnessed and used in learning and research?
This is a guest blog article by Jim Hensman from Coventry University. I have been involved over a number of years in various projects relating to collective intelligence and collaborative working. Organisational, social, psychological and cultural factors have to be taken ...
Building Reflection into Design.
In a break from my normal blogging style, what follows is taken from a SerenA paper (D. Maxwell & M. Woods, Encouraging Reflexivity in Mobile Interactions) presented at the recent Computers and the History of Art (CHArt) ...
- conference | Debbie Maxwell | Design | Dundee | Mel Woods | reflection
LUCK – overrated in terms of serendipity?
This is a guest blog article by Ilkka Kakko from RespectSerendipity.com ”For almost two centuries, Spain has hosted an enormously popular Christmas lottery. Based on the payout, it is the biggest lottery in the world and nearly all Spaniards play. In ...
SerenA at CHArt (Computers and the History of Art Conference)
Mel Woods will present two papers at the forthcoming CHArt (Computers and the History of Art Conference). More information about the papers including abstract and conference booking can be found by clicking on the links below. The Digital Quill: Inspiring Creativity ...
Encountering information: serendipity or overload?
After my keynote at ISIC, one of the participants challenged me on my claim that information overload is a "bad thing" (not that I put it quite like that, but I certainly suggested it was something to ...
Making Serendipitous Connections via Research Publications
Universities throughout the UK are gathering information for the UK Research Excellence Framework in 2014 and as a result they are gathering large databases of information about their research activities, and about the research activities, interests and especially the ...
- data | Diana Bental | Heriot Watt | pure
SerenA Contributions to Open Source Software
One of the enjoyable aspects of writing research software, is that often a free license is granted to play with and explore a vast variety of technologies, frameworks and programming libraries. The technologies that are engaged with the SerenA development have ...
- foss | open | research | source | websockets
The Semantic Notebook App
In my previous post ‘Taking the digital notebook a step further‘ we talked about the various ways in which people use their notebook and how they draw connections between different ideas. We highlighted the pro’s and con’s of digital note ...
Sembl: Tapping human knowledge and imagination, link by link
We recently had a meeting with Catherine Styles, the creator of the Sembl Project to discuss how Serena and Sembl are both investigating serendipity, but from very different angles. The Sembl project is taking place at the National Museum of Australia. ...
Understanding ‘Delight’ in Design
What are ‘delightful’ interfaces? Do they exist? Could ‘delightful’ interfaces inspire serendipitous moments? If yes, how does this affect the user experience? Is ‘delight’ in design something measurable in strict terms? Or do we observe and understand ‘delight’ through its ...
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