Purpose Serendipitous information discovery has become a unique and important approach
to discovering and obtaining information, which has aroused a growing interest for …

Serendipity is not an easy word to define. Its meaning has been stretched to apply to
experiences ranging from the mundane to the exceptional. Serendipity, however, is …

Purpose Serendipity is an interesting phenomenon to study in information science as it plays
a fundamental–but perhaps underestimated–role in how we discover, explore, and learn in …

Under what conditions is serendipity most likely to occur? How much is serendipity
influenced by what a person brings to the process, and how much by the environment in …

The contemporary city is increasingly being labeled as a smart city consisting of both
physical and virtual spaces. This digital augmentation of urban life sets the scene for urban …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the changing research practices of
historians, and to contrast their experiences of serendipity in physical and digital information …

Critics worry that algorithmic filtering could lead to overly polished, homogeneous web
experiences.“Serendipity,” in turn, has been touted as an antidote. Yet, the desirability of …

Journalistic media increasingly address changing user behaviour online by implementing
algorithmic recommendations on their pages. While social media extensively rely on user …

Asking questions is a central element of Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) studies, yet the
challenges associated with asking" good" questions is are rarely discussed. This …

Introduction. Digital information environments such as Websites and search engines have
the potential to support serendipity: to spark and nurture positive, unexpected interactions …