designing for serendipity in food chains of everyday life creativity
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Presentation at IVA/CCC research seminar, University of Copenhagen – April 24, 2013. Speech notes available: http://www.academia.edu/3450618/Designing_for_serendipity_in_food_chains_of_everyday_life_creativityTRANSCRIPT
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Björneborn – IVA/CCC research seminar, University of Copenhagen – April 24, 2013Slide 1
Designing for serendipityin food chains of everyday life creativity
Lennart Björneborn Associate Professor, PhDIVA – Royal School of Library and Information ScienceUniversity of Copenhagen
[email protected]://ku-dk.academia.edu/Bjorneborn
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serendipity
Horace Walpole• 4th Earl of Orford, 1717-1797
”serendipity … making discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of …”• Walpole, 1754
“The three princes of Serendip”• Serendip = Sri Lanka
• Merton & Barber (2004). The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Historical Semantics and the Sociology of Science. Princeton University Press
“the art of making an unsought finding”• Van Andel (1994).
Anatomy of the unsought finding: Serendipity: Origin, history, domains, traditions, appearances, patterns and programmability. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 45(2): 631-648.
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agenda
• “… discuss design dimensions across physical and digital mediation spaces – like libraries, museums, web sites and urban spaces – that may enable and trigger people to find interesting resources not planned or not known in advance.”
• “… such mediation spaces enabling serendipity may be seen as important players in food chains of everyday life creativity that may feed - and be fed through – other innovation infrastructures in society as addressed by the national INNO+ initiative that the University of Copenhagen is contributing to.”
why is serendipity interesting?
serendipity: finding interesting things in unplanned ways
important role in many scientific discoveries
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is this serendipity?
penicillin
antabus
why is serendipity interesting?
serendipity: finding interesting things in unplanned ways
important role in many scientific discoveries
also integral part in everyday information practices
• how we get new inspiration, ideas, insights in everyday life
• how we explore and learn many new things in life since infanthood
• serendipity is foreseeable in unforeseeable world
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how we getinspiration, ideas, insights in everyday life
serendipity: foreseeable phenomenon in unforeseeable world
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how we explore and learn many new things in life since infanthood
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‘Revenge of the Right Brain’. Wired, February 2005
food chains of everyday
serendipity & creativity
how and where do we get new ideas in everyday life?
how and where do new ideas spread in society?
“homo ludens”
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Micro-serendipity: Meaningful Coincidences in Everyday Life Shared on TwitteriConference 2013, Fort Worth, TX – http://hdl.handle.net/2142/36052
Toine Bogers & Lennart Björneborn Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen
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why is serendipity interesting?
serendipity: finding interesting things in unplanned ways
important role in many scientific discoveries
also integral part in everyday information behavior
• how we get new inspiration, ideas, insights in everyday life
• how we explore and learn many new things in life since infanthood
• serendipity is foreseeable in unforeseeable world
design for stimulating and supporting serendipity
• search engines, recommender systems (e.g. music, books),
micro-blogging, …
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people/profiles
places/forums
artefacts/resources
metadata
4 network layers in mediation spaces / ‘food chains’
reachability structures serendipity affordances
Björneborn work-in-progress
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‘Tantrix’
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3 key serendipity dimensions
traversability• rich navigational topology• how traversable is phys./dig. terrain?• i.e., how easy is it to move around?
diversity• rich topical topology• how diversified is terrain?• i.e., how much new stuff to find?
sensoriality• rich sensorial topology• how perceivable is terrain?• i.e., how easy is it to sense?
Björneborn work-in-progress
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10 serendipity sub-dimensions
modified after Björneborn (2010)
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3 key serendipity dimensions
traversability• how traversable is environment?• accessibility + multi-reachability
+ explorability + stopability
diversity• how diversified is environment?• diversity + imperfection + cross contacts
sensoriality• how perceivable is environment?• display + contrasts + pointers
Björneborn work-in-progress
explorability interface invites users to move, look around and explore
Pho
to:
Jann
ik M
ulva
d
Aarhus Main Library
key serendipity dimension: traversability
imperfection allowing ’cracks’ and users’ behavioural traces in interface
Copenhagen Main Library
key serendipity dimension: diversity
contrasts sensorial differentiation incl. quiet zones + display zones
Vangede Library
key serendipity dimension: sensoriality
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3 key serendipity dimensions
traversability• how traversable is environment?• accessibility + multi-reachability
+ explorability + stopability
diversity• how diversified is environment?• diversity + imperfection + cross contacts
sensoriality• how perceivable is environment?• display + contrasts + pointers
Björneborn work-in-progress
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final remarks
• “… discuss design dimensions across physical and digital mediation spaces – like libraries, museums, web sites and urban spaces – that may enable and trigger people to find interesting resources not planned or not known in advance.”
• “… such mediation spaces enabling serendipity may be seen as important players in food chains of everyday life creativity that may feed - and be fed through – other innovation infrastructures in society as addressed by the national INNO+ initiative that the University of Copenhagen is contributing to.”
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Björneborn – IVA/CCC research seminar, University of Copenhagen – April 24, 2013Slide 31
Designing for serendipityin food chains of everyday life creativity
Lennart Björneborn Associate Professor, PhDIVA – Royal School of Library and Information ScienceUniversity of Copenhagen
[email protected]://ku-dk.academia.edu/Bjorneborn
IVA – Royal School of Library and Information Science
Björneborn – IVA/CCC research seminar, University of Copenhagen – April 24, 2013
selected references• Bogers, T. & Björneborn, L. (2013). Micro-serendipity: Meaningful coincidences in everyday life
shared on Twitter. Proceedings of iConference 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/36052
• Björneborn, L. (2011). Behavioural traces and indirect user-to-user mediation in the participatory
library. Proceedings of ISSOME 2011, the International Conference on Information Science and
Social Media. http://bit.ly/ZZ962c
• Björneborn, L. (2010a). Design dimensions enabling divergent behaviour across physical, digital,
and social library interfaces. pp. 143-149. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6137 /
Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Persuasive Design, PERSUASIVE 2010. Springer.
http://bit.ly/1620FG7
• Björneborn, L. (2010b). Genre connectivity and genre drift in a web of genres. pp. 255-274.
In: Mehler, A. et al. (eds.). Genres on the Web : Computational Models and Empirical Studies.
(Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol. 42). Springer. http://bit.ly/ZBnSuV
• Björneborn, L. (2008). Serendipity dimensions and users' information behaviour in the physical
library interface. Information Research, 13(4): paper 370.
http://informationr.net/ir/13-4/paper370.html
• Björneborn, L. (2006). 'Mini small worlds' of shortest link paths crossing domain boundaries in an
academic Web space. Scientometrics, 68(3): 395-414. http://bit.ly/11XHLvO
more references: http://ku-dk.academia.edu/Bjorneborn