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Call for PhD students to attend BCS HCI ‘Delight’ Workshop

The SerenA RCUK project has identified an opportunity to fund the registration fee to enable 5 PhD students to attend Understanding Delight in Design: User Experience, Technologies and Tools workshop at BCS HCI 2012. The workshop will provide PhD students with ...

Community Radio Broadcast ‘Blue Skies Festival’

On Saturday 11th August 2012, SerenA played a part in the community radio broadcast at 'Blue Skies Festival', Dundee’s festival of kite flying, stargazing and rainbow chasing which runs from 10 to 12 August 2012. Blue Skies will be bringing a ...

The Serendipitous Community: SerenA at the Small Society Lab

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Performing Worlds: Performing Serendipitous Connections

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 ...

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 ...

SerenA at ‘Digital Conversations’ British Library

Digital Conversations @ British Library Profiling & Privacy 25th May, 2012 In a quest to provide relevant and personalised experiences for users, institutions are having to navigate the fuzzy intersection between user profiling and privacy. As technology makes the collection and processing of ...

Stephann Makri tells ‘Serendipity Stories’ in Canada

Stephann Makri has recently presented some of his 'serendipity stories' at McGill University in Montréal. These stories are digital video summaries of serendipitous experiences described by academic researchers in interviews - where Stephann asked researchers to provide him with a ...

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