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Making time for serendipity
Serendipity is about time and an attitude of mind. But it's not just about the individual: it also depends on the social context. Laura Dantonio proposed a Masters project that looked at the role of social media in facilitating serendipity. ...
- Ann Blandford | serendipity | time | UCL
How to ‘Respect Serendipity’ and ‘Get Lucky’
I've recently started a guest blog series) on Finnish-born IIkka Kakko's serendipity blog (www.respectserendipity.com). In it, I talk about my research so far as part of the SerenA project. I like the blog, not only because IIkka really does seem ...
Last month, SerenA took part in the Small Society Lab at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA). This included a panel discussion around the idea of the Serendipitous Community; a space where connections can be made and serendipity encouraged. Chaired by Mel Woods, ...
- Dan Norton | Debbie Maxwell | Diana Bental | Dundee | Mel Woods | semantic | serendipity | small society lab | Stephann Makri | Talk
Vaguely Drift
Observing the laptop-generation in conference, lecture, and conversation, writing to colleagues, checking football scores, reading emails, speaking eloquently, one eye on screen, the other on the roof, an ear on the talker, the other possibly on majestical internal ruminations, i ...
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
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