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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 ...
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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 ...
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as luck would have it…
To write a paragraph or two about SerenA, I set out for a stroll to get the grey matter moving. As I walk, the wind blows a raggedy old comic across my path. The pages lie open to reveal the ...
Taking the digital notebook a step further.
In the traditional sense a notebook is a physical object. It has an owner and that owner uses it to capture ideas, thoughts and information. Notebooks are used in a context which are unique to the owner and its contents ...
SerenA Android Development and WebSockets
A large proportion of the SerenA design and development effort in recent weeks has focused on specifying and implementing a prototype user interface to the SerenA system. Mobile, Web, desktop and pubic space interfaces are all potential mediums through which users may interact with ...
It is an interesting issue how social media systems can be applied to the supporting of serendipity. As a popular social media system, Twitter allows people to rapidly spread and exchange messages, and we assume it can be good a ...
Chance Favours the Prepared Mind
As one of the newest members on the SerenA project, I've spent the last four weeks trying to get my head around what SerenA is, what forms SerenA will take, and what SerenA will actually look like. And, naturally enough, ...
Stories of Serendipity – Daily Dose of Tubeworms
'Daily Dose of Tubeworms' is one of 28 'Stories of Serendipity' gathered from interviews with researchers for 'SerenA - Chance Encounters in the Space of Ideas'. The stories aim to contribute to an understanding of Serendipity in research and across ...
Taking the Semantic Web for a Walk
One of the joys of working in a shared office containing half a dozen people who all work part-time on different projects and on unpredictable schedules is never knowing when a chat will be productive and inspiring. Last week I had ...
Towards a 3D model of serendipity
What is serendipity really? Some people perceive serendipity as a ‘pleasant incident’, as a ‘happy accident’, as an ‘unexpected event’…but what is it really? How can it be defined? Considering the aforementioned perceptions - some could even call them mini-definitions- ...
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