Exploring opportunities to facilitate serendipity in search
Serendipitously discovering new information can bring many benefits. Although we can design systems to highlight serendipitous information, serendipity cannot be easily orchestrated and is thus hard to study. In this paper, we deployed a working search engine that matched search results with Faceboo...
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| author | Rahman, M. Ataur Wilson, Max L. |
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| description | Serendipitously discovering new information can bring many benefits. Although we can design systems to highlight serendipitous information, serendipity cannot be easily orchestrated and is thus hard to study. In this paper, we deployed a working search engine that matched search results with Facebook `Like' data, as a technology probe to examine naturally occurring serendipitous discoveries. Search logs and diary entries revealed the nature of these occasions in both leisure and work contexts. The findings support the use of the micro-serendipity model in search system design. |
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| spelling | nottingham-313152020-05-04T20:07:56Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31315/ Exploring opportunities to facilitate serendipity in search Rahman, M. Ataur Wilson, Max L. Serendipitously discovering new information can bring many benefits. Although we can design systems to highlight serendipitous information, serendipity cannot be easily orchestrated and is thus hard to study. In this paper, we deployed a working search engine that matched search results with Facebook `Like' data, as a technology probe to examine naturally occurring serendipitous discoveries. Search logs and diary entries revealed the nature of these occasions in both leisure and work contexts. The findings support the use of the micro-serendipity model in search system design. ACM 2015-08 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Rahman, M. Ataur and Wilson, Max L. (2015) Exploring opportunities to facilitate serendipity in search. In: 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 9-13 Aug 2015, Santiago, Chile. Design Serendipity Web search http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2766462.2767783 |
| spellingShingle | Design Serendipity Web search Rahman, M. Ataur Wilson, Max L. Exploring opportunities to facilitate serendipity in search |
| title | Exploring opportunities to facilitate serendipity in search |
| title_full | Exploring opportunities to facilitate serendipity in search |
| title_fullStr | Exploring opportunities to facilitate serendipity in search |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring opportunities to facilitate serendipity in search |
| title_short | Exploring opportunities to facilitate serendipity in search |
| title_sort | exploring opportunities to facilitate serendipity in search |
| topic | Design Serendipity Web search |
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