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

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 …

Serendipity occurs when unexpected circumstances and an “aha” moment of insight result in
a valuable, unanticipated outcome. Designing digital information environments to support …

Purpose Websites, search engines, recommender systems, artificial intelligence and digital
libraries have the potential to support serendipity for unexpected interaction with information …

Many important findings and discoveries in science and everyday life are the result of
serendipity, that is, the unanticipated occurrence of happy events such as the finding of …

With the rapid development of livestreaming commerce in China, consumers spend an
increasing amount of time watching and purchasing on the platform. This study examines …

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 …

Our natural tendency to be curious is increasingly important now that we are exposed to vast
amounts of information. We often cope with this overload by focusing on the familiar …

In this paper we present work on micro-serendipity: investigating everyday contexts,
conditions, and attributes of serendipity as shared on Twitter. In contrast to related work, we …

Serendipity in recommender systems is ought to improve the quality and usefulness of
recommendations. However, despite the increasing amount of attention in both research …