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Towards a Model for Serendipitous Discoveries

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Information Science and Applications

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A serendipitous experience in information browsing stands for an unexpected information encounter that induces some creativity or new ideas. In this paper we report our ongoing project on a model for measuring the serendipity of an information space in which users navigate by traversing hyperlinks to find desired information. For the model, we define the ‘serendipity’ value of an information space based on the summation of likelihoods that may induce a serendipitous discovery.

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  1. Korea University, Seol, Korea

    Chan Gu Kang, Hyeonmin Park & Seongbin Park

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  1. Kyonggi University, Suwon-si, Korea (Republic of)

    Kuinam J. Kim

  2. School of Games, Hongik University, Chungchengnam-do, Korea (Republic of)

    Hye-Young Kim

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Kang, C.G., Park, H., Park, S. (2020). Towards a Model for Serendipitous Discoveries. In: Kim, K., Kim, HY. (eds) Information Science and Applications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 621. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1465-4_60

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