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While serendipity is generally understood as a beneficial design principle ought to deliver societal value, putting it into practice still presents major challenges. The Serendipity Engine project sets out to address these challenges and support societal stakeholders in designing recommender systems to foster serendipity in public contexts.

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What is Serendipity Engine | IGI Global Scientific Publishing

What is Serendipity Engine? Definition of Serendipity Engine: A description for search engines that not only support goal-oriented searches, but, rather, also allow for exploration and discovery of new pieces of information through visual display or similar elements.

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The Webbys 25 for 25: The Greatest Serendipity Engine in History

We have devolved our decision-making to a sophisticated assemblage of binary codes curated into place by software engineers who, themselves, have agendas, frames and biases. This is the next step of our digital literacies: to recognise that code is not just law; it’s art. It is as situated in time and place as a Spielberg film, Lebanese cuisine and mid-century Scandinavian architecture. The accidents the web throws in our paths are only part of serendipity recipe.

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Instead of Networking, Build a Serendipity Engine — Daniel Stillman

20 April 2023 - My coach and I call this way of living having a "serendipity engine" - consistently creating moments of potential connection and designing a cadence of connection in your life that can lead to unexpected, deeper connections if you're open to them.

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The Serendipity Engine

The first is a working machine that uses bike parts, flower pots, cake, pulleys, lightbulbs and other concrete objects to articulate the processes that could be translated into digital “solutions” that will re-engineer the potential dystopian social trajectories of current (social) software trends*. It was theorised, devised, designed, developed and welded together by Dr Aleks Krotoski and Dr Katrina Jungnickel. It is #2 in a series of Enquiry Machines curated by Kat and Julien McHardy, which “render visible the labour of knowledge making”. The second combines the physical and the virtual to produce a personalised serendipity recipe for everyone who tries it.

The term "Serendipity Engine" refers to various concepts and projects aimed at fostering unexpected, beneficial discoveries. It can describe a physical art installation by Aleks Krotoski and Kat Jungnickel that explores digital serendipity through tangible components, or an AI-powered life concierge that curates personalized, factually grounded experiences based on user preferences. The concept also appears in academic research focused on designing digital systems that promote serendipitous urban experiences and in discussions about search engines evolving beyond personalization to enable chance encounters with new information. The term was notably popularized by Google's Eric Schmidt, who envisioned a future where search engines anticipate user needs and deliver serendipitous results.