Awareness for Fostering Serendipitous Interaction in Public Intelligent Environments

This paper presents possibilities offered by public intelligent environment to foster learning through serendipitous interaction among uncoupled users. Four possible situations of how serendipitous interaction may occur and lead to learning activities are presented. In these situations capturing the right information, modeling it and providing awareness information back to the users plays a major role. Therefore elements that make up this awareness information are presented and a model for fostering serendipitous interaction in public intelligent environments is also proposed.