...Xuanning Chen; Angela Lin; Sheila Webber Purpose This study aims to gain a better understanding of artificial serendipity – pre-planned surprises intentionally crafted through deliberate designs – in online marketplaces. By exploring the key features of artificial serendipity, this study...

...Sanda Erdelez; Yuan-Ho Huang; Naresh Kumar Agarwal Purpose This study investigated the moderating effect of organizational knowledge management performance on the sharing and use of information encountered by serendipity within the organization. Design/methodology/approach The authors surveyed...

...Annelien Smets Purpose This article aims to gain a better understanding of the reasons why serendipity is designed for in different kinds of environments. Understanding these design intents sheds light on the value such designs bring to designers, in contrast to the users of the environment...

...Carli V. Lowe Purpose In several existing studies of Information Encountering (IE), a recurring sub-phenomenon of serendipity arises that indicates the potential for certain unexpected encounters with information to be transformative. The author labels this sub-phenomenon Transformative...

...Yaxi Liu; Chunxiu Qin; Xubu Ma; Huigang Liang 04 02 2021 23 04 2021 15 06 2021 20 06 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only RQ2. What are the potential benefits and applications of serendipity...

... Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Communities Information science Information behavior Serendipity Searching Music Salience Choral directors Choral directors participate in a profession that involves multifaceted ways of learning and knowing. Also...

... and richness of human information behavior, increasing research attention has been paid to examining serendipity in the context of information acquisition. However, several issues have arisen as this research subfield has tried to find its feet; we have used different, inconsistent terminology to define...

...Xiaosong Zhou; Xu Sun; Qingfeng Wang; Sarah Sharples Purpose The current understanding of serendipity is based primarily on studies employing westerners as the participants, and it remains uncertain whether or not this understanding would be pervasive under different cultures, such as in China...

...Lennart Björneborn Comparing the presented framework with related research, 11 approaches for understanding serendipity and akin phenomena are included and mapped into the framework (cf. Table I). Included research was selected from both often-cited and newer literature, with theoretical...

... is to investigate the changing research practices of historians, and to contrast their experiences of serendipity in physical and digital information environments. In total, 20 historians in Southwestern Ontario participated in semi-structured, in-depth interviews. The interviews were transcribed...

... into the core of this specific human information behavior. Serendipity Information encountering Model Process Factors Although serendipity is unpredictable, unreliable, and uncontrollable, its value has long been recognized. Everyone may experience the accidents of finding something good...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Qualitative research Serendipity Abduction Sensemaking process Serendipitous Research in the social sciences is built on certain beliefs, values, and assumptions, one of which is empirical rationality – the regularity of empirical...

...Professor Peter Willett; Allen Edward Foster; David Ellis Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of serendipity and approaches to its study particularly in relation to information studies. Design/methodology/approach – The origins of the term serendipity are described...

... The classification framework was constructed by analysing 46 experiences of coming across information serendipitously provided by 28 interdisciplinary researchers during critical incident interviews. “Serendipity stories” were written to summarise each experience and to facilitate their comparison. The common...

... of serendipity. In this model, a new connection is made that involves a mix of unexpectedness and insight and has the potential to lead to a valuable outcome. Projections are made on the potential value of the outcome and actions are taken to exploit the connection, leading to an (unanticipated) valuable outcome...