Serendipity and its study

Foster, Allen; Ellis, David

doi:10.1108/jd-03-2014-0053

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“…It also foregrounds the crucial interplay between a "prepared mind" (see e.g. Copeland, 2017;Foster & Ellis, 2014;McCay-Peet & Toms, 2015) and the flexibility and openness required to embrace a shift in direction. While being sensitised towards a problem, topic or effect can certainly have a positive role in recognising an opportunity in an unexpected outcome, a flexible, open-minded outlook may be needed to pursue such an opening and allow the reconsideration of the research direction.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Kinetic morphologies. Revealing opportunity from mistake

Piñeyro¹

2019

The Design Journal

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The active role materials play in the emergence of outcomes from making is considered in this paper in relation to the opportunities provided by adopting working methods that acknowledge and favour such an active role in practice-based design research. Allowing another "voice" to come into play in the making process widens the possibilities for unforeseen, generative outcomes to be revealed. Intuitive working modalities that explore material tendencies and capacities and support their manifestation, combined with structured processes of exploration and supported by documentation, reflection and analysis methods, offer opportunities to devise productive hybrid methodologies for practice-based research in textile design. This paper describes an accidental event arising from hands-on engagement with a material, leading to an unforeseen result. It further considers how, by broadening my understanding of the material's potential and foregrounding its active role in the making process, the event motivated a shift in the focus of the research and the consequent redefinition of its objectives while influencing the methods subsequently used in the exploration.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Kinetic morphologies. Revealing opportunity from mistake

Piñeyro¹

2019

The Design Journal

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“…Erdelez defined information encountering as accidental information discovery, which is similar to serendipity [23]. Studies in the library and information science have focused on the patterns and effects of serendipity when people were looking for information [16,19,24,25].…”

Section: Serendipitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability in Online Video Hosting Services: The Effects of Serendipity and Flow Experience on Prolonged Usage Time

Cheng

2020

Sustainability

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Online video hosting services have been a highly competitive e-commerce application in recent years. The service providers constantly seek viable ways for users to prolong usage time as a model for sustainable business development. In this study, we propose a framework to verify the impact of perceived serendipity on flow experience and prolong usage time. In addition, we verify the factors of online video platforms that affect perceived serendipity, such as enabled connections, introduced unexpected information, and induced curiosity. This study used questionnaires to survey YouTube users and analyzed 405 samples using the Structural Equation Model (SEM) method. The result shows that enabled connections and introduced unexpected information significantly affect perceived serendipity, which significantly impacts on the flow experience. Although induced curiosity does not significantly affect perceived serendipity, it directly affects the flow experience. Moreover, both perceived serendipity and flow experience positively affect intentions to prolong usage time. The results validate that serendipity is another antecedent of flow experience, and support the assumption that increasing the likelihood of perceived serendipity will affect users’ intention to prolong usage time in online video hosting services. The implication of research and discussions provides references for online video hosting service providers in marketing and operations.

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“…Current research casts serendipity as a phenomenon experienced a posteriori (Martin & Quan-Haase, 2016). This reflects the pure definition of serendipity which suggests that it is the noticing of an unanticipated datum that spawns a new, unsought for, solution, explanation or theory (Edward Foster & Ellis, 2014). However, the definition is slippery (Makri & Blandford, 2012) and has been broadened to include both targeted searches which solve a problem via an unexpected route and also untargeted searches which solve immediate problems (Yaqub, 2018).…”

Section: Interactivity and Microserendipitymentioning

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Catch that word: interactivity, serendipity and verbal fluency in a word production task

Ross

Vallée-Tourangeau

2020

Psychological Research

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Problem solving outside of the cognitive psychologist's lab unfolds in an environment rich with bodily gesture and material artefacts. We examine this meshwork of internal mental resources, embodied actions and environmental affordances through the lens of a word production task with letter tiles. Forty participants took part in the study which contrasted performance in a high interactivity condition (where participants were able to move letter tiles at will), a low interactivity condition (where movements were restrained) and a shuffle condition (where participants could not move the tiles but were allowed to randomly rearrange the array). Participants were also video recorded to facilitate coding of behaviour. While aggregate performance measures revealed a marginal impact of interactivity on performance, when the participants' behaviour was taken into account, interactivity had a consistent and statistically significant beneficial effect. Detailed, exploratory examination of a subsample of participants informed the formulation of additional hypotheses tested across the full sample: the luckiness of the shuffle in that condition significantly predicted the number of words produced and a more efficient strategy was significantly easier to enact in the high interactivity condition. Additionally, two detailed case studies revealed several moments when accidental changes to the letter tile array offered unplanned words reflecting a serendipitous coagency as well as many moments when environmental chance was ignored. These data and observations indicate that interactivity, serendipity, and internal cognitive resources determine problem-solving performance in this task.

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Serendipity and its study

Cited by 66 publications

References 39 publications

Kinetic morphologies. Revealing opportunity from mistake

Kinetic morphologies. Revealing opportunity from mistake

Sustainability in Online Video Hosting Services: The Effects of Serendipity and Flow Experience on Prolonged Usage Time

Catch that word: interactivity, serendipity and verbal fluency in a word production task

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