Measuring Serendipity in the Lab: The Effects of Priming and Monitoring
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Measuring Serendipity in the Lab: The Effects of Priming and Monitoring. / Bogers, Toine; Rasmussen, Rune Rosenborg; Jensen, Louis Sebastian Bo.
Proceedings of the iConference 2013. IDEALS : iSchools, 2013. p. 703-706.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Measuring Serendipity in the Lab: The Effects of Priming and Monitoring
AU - Bogers, Toine
AU - Rasmussen, Rune Rosenborg
AU - Jensen, Louis Sebastian Bo
PY - 2013/2/6
Y1 - 2013/2/6
N2 - While the phenomenon of serendipity has proven to be a popular research topic, the issue of how to measure it effectively still relatively unexplored. We present an exploratory study that contributes to our understanding of this issue by examining the effect of (1) priming people about the concept of serendipity and (2) monitoring participants on how they experience serendipity when searching for information in a controlled environment. Our experiments indicate that it is best to keep such controlled experiments as natural as possible: priming participants about serendipity and monitoring them during their experiments seem to have a negative influence on experiencing serendipity, as they are more likely to induce participants to stay on task instead of exhibiting diverging information behavior.
AB - While the phenomenon of serendipity has proven to be a popular research topic, the issue of how to measure it effectively still relatively unexplored. We present an exploratory study that contributes to our understanding of this issue by examining the effect of (1) priming people about the concept of serendipity and (2) monitoring participants on how they experience serendipity when searching for information in a controlled environment. Our experiments indicate that it is best to keep such controlled experiments as natural as possible: priming participants about serendipity and monitoring them during their experiments seem to have a negative influence on experiencing serendipity, as they are more likely to induce participants to stay on task instead of exhibiting diverging information behavior.
KW - serendipity
KW - measurement
KW - priming
KW - monitoring
KW - information behavior
KW - information retrieval
KW - quantitative data analysis
U2 - 10.9776/13325
DO - 10.9776/13325
M3 - Article in proceedings
SP - 703
EP - 706
BT - Proceedings of the iConference 2013
PB - iSchools
CY - IDEALS
ER -
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