Tag Archives: serendipity
Serendipity. Let’s talk numbers…
A guest blog post by Abigail McBirnie, who completed her PhD at Aberystwyth University in December 2012. Her thesis examined networked and quantitative aspects of serendipity. She can be contacted on amcbirnie at googlemail dot com. Back in October ...
Second-hand serendipity?
Doing research on serendipity enables me to reflect more than I would have done otherwise on experiences that I'd class as serendipity. Preparing for a recent workshop, I realised that it was a serendipitous encounter that led to all our ...
Ann Blandford was invited to contribute an article on Information Encountering and Serendipity" to "Designing the Search Experience: The Information Architecture of Discovery" by Tony Russell-Rose and Tyler Tate. This text has now been published by Morgan Kaufmann, to widespread acclaim ...
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 ...
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. ...
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
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
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