书目名称 | Researching Serendipity in Digital Information Environments | 编辑 | Lori McCay-Peet,Elaine G. Toms | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Chance, luck, and good fortune are the usual go-to descriptors of serendipity, a phenomenon aptly often coupled with famous anecdotes of accidental discoveries in engineering and science in modern history such as penicillin, Teflon, and Post-it notes. Serendipity, however, is evident in many fields of research, in organizations, in everyday life—and there is more to it than luck implies. While the phenomenon is strongly associated with in person interactions with people, places, and things, most attention of late has focused on its preservation and facilitation within digital information environments. Serendipity‘s association with unexpected, positive user experiences and outcomes has spurred an interest in understanding both how current digital information environments support serendipity and how novel approaches may be developed to facilitate it. Research has sought to understand serendipity, how it is manifested in people‘s personality traits and behaviors, how it may be facilitated in digital information environments such as mobile applications, and its impacts on an individual, an organizational, and a wider level. Because serendipity is expressed and understood in different | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02312-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-01184-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-02312-5Series ISSN 1947-945X Series E-ISSN 1947-9468 | issn_series | 1947-945X | copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 |
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