Exploring opportunities to facilitate serendipity in search

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.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/982878
Keywords: Design, Serendipity, Web search
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Computer Science
Depositing User: Wilson, Max
Date Deposited: 22 Jan 2016 08:50
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 20:07
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/31315

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