Tag Archives: serendipity

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 ...

A ‘Serendipity Story’ in the Course of Serendipity Research

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...