Designing a semantic sketchbook to create opportunities for serendipity

Mel Woods; Deborah Maxwell; Stephann  Makri; Diana Bental; Genovefa Kefalidou; Sarah  Sharples

Designing a semantic sketchbook to create opportunities for serendipity

Mel Woods
, Deborah Maxwell
, Stephann Makri
, Diana Bental
, Genovefa Kefalidou
, Sarah Sharples

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Serendipity is where unexpected circumstances and an insightful 'aha' moment result in a valuable outcome. We discuss how interactive systems can support the process of serendipity: from making new connections, to projecting and exploiting their potential value. We focus in particular on how technology can support reflection -- which is an important part of the serendipity process. By considering findings from a set of empirical studies and a set of design principles aimed at encouraging reflection, we present an early stage digital 'Semantic Sketchbook' which was designed with the aim of supporting reflection (as well as other aspects of the process of serendipity). We discuss how our 'Semantic Sketchbook' has the potential to create opportunities for serendipity and the next steps we intend to take in developing it and evaluating its success.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	BCS-HCI '12 Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers
Place of Publication	Swinton
Publisher	British Computer Society
Pages	357-362
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction - Birmingham, United Kingdom Duration: 12 Sept 2012 → 14 Sept 2012

Publication series

Name	Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
Publisher	British Computer Society
ISSN (Electronic)	1477-9358

Conference

Conference	26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Birmingham
Period	12/09/12 → 14/09/12

Keywords

interaction design
Serendipity
serendipitous
information discovery
reflective design
slow technology
sketchbook
notebook
Semantic web
mobile
user experience
user goals

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SerenA: a multi-site pervasive agent environment that supports serendipitous discovery in research
Forth, J., Giannimaras, T., Wiggins, G. A., Stewart, R., Bental, D., Aylett, R., Maxwell, D., Mehrpouya, H., Shek, J. & Woods, M., 2013, Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: 11th International Conference, PAAMS 2013, Salamanca, Spain, May 22-24, 2013. Proceedings. Demazeau , Y., Ishida, T., Corchado, J. M. & Bajo, J. (eds.). Berlin: Springer , p. 85-96 12 p. (Lecture notes in computer science; vol. 7879).
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Woods, M., Maxwell, D., Makri, S., Bental, D., Kefalidou, G., & Sharples, S. (2012). Designing a semantic sketchbook to create opportunities for serendipity. In BCS-HCI '12 Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers (pp. 357-362). (Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)). British Computer Society. http://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/47823

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Woods, M, Maxwell, D, Makri, S, Bental, D, Kefalidou, G & Sharples, S 2012, Designing a semantic sketchbook to create opportunities for serendipity. in BCS-HCI '12 Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers. Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC), British Computer Society, Swinton, pp. 357-362, 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 12/09/12. <http://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/47823>

Designing a semantic sketchbook to create opportunities for serendipity. / Woods, Mel; Maxwell, Deborah; Makri, Stephann et al.
BCS-HCI '12 Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers. Swinton: British Computer Society, 2012. p. 357-362 (Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)).

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