Serendipity and information seeking: an empirical study

By Allen Foster, N. Ford. J. Documentation, 2003

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Diversity, Serendipity, Novelty, and Coverage (2016, background): “Herlocker et al. [2004] distinguished between two forms of item coverage— “prediction coverage,” which captures the ratio of items for which predictions can be made by the recommendation algorithm, and “catalog coverage,” which captures the ratio of items that effectively appear in the recommendatio”
Factors Affecting Online Impulse Buying: Evidence from Chinese Social Commerce Environment (2018, background): “According to Foster and Foster [60], serendipity includes unexpected worth and finding.”
Exploratory Search: Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm (2009, methodology): “In a similar way to research practice, exploratory search involves original thought, lateral thinking, and serendipity (Bawden, 1986; Foster and Ford, 2003).”
A visual analytics approach to understanding cycling behaviour (2012, unknown): “This section also introduces notation used throughout the paper.”