From Chance to Serendipity: Knowledge Workers’ Experiences of Serendipitous Social Encounters

Serendipity refers to uncontrolled circumstances that lead to unexpected yet fortunate discoveries. The phenomenon has been studied extensively in relation to information retrieval. However, serendipity in the context of social encounters has been the subject of few empirical studies. In professiona...

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Main Authors: Ekaterina Olshannikova, Thomas Olsson, Jukka Huhtamäki, Susanna Paasovaara, Hannu Kärkkäinen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2020-01-01
Series:Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/1827107