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CANDC
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Discovery is never by chance: designing for (un)serendipity
Serendipity has a long tradition in the history of science as having played a key role in many significant discoveries. Computer scientists, valuing the role of serendipity in dis...
Paul André, m. c. schraefel, Jaime Teevan, ...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: serendipity and its role in web search
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Jaime Teevan, Paul André, Susan T. Dumais