Finding serendipity

Anti-Serendipity: Finding Useless Documents and Similar Documents

The problem of finding your way through a relatively unknown collection of digital documents can be daunting. Such collections sometimes have few categories and little hierarchy, or they have so much hierarchy that valuable relations between documents can easily become obscured. We describe here how our work in the area of termrecognition and sentence-based summarization can be used to filter t...

Finding without Searching - A Serendipity-based Approach for Digital Cultural Heritage

This paper presents a novel approach for supporting serendipitybased information retrieval systems with regard of different information seeking motivations: seeking for specific information or browsing. We present two working applications that apply the presented methods. Our promising results could contribute to a better understanding of online collections on different device classes, like sma...

The serendipity shuffle

Recently, listening to music in shuffle mode has gained a strong following. Analysis of online data about the ‘shuffle experience’ reveals a range of rich and unusual user-experiences one in particular is Serendipity. Although serendipity is often imbued with ‘magic’ or regarded as a product of chance and luck, its effects can be inspirational and transformative. To date, little has been done t...

Can Serendipity Be Planned ?

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The Serendipity-ii Process