[chisigmail] IDG PhD Completion Seminar: Understanding Serendipity as a UX

[Daryl Ku]

(Apologies for cross posting)

You are cordially invited to a Completion Seminar for one of our PhD  
candidates.


PRESENTER:      Tuck Leong

TITLE:          PhD Completion Seminar: Understanding Serendipity as a UX

VENUE:          University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry  
Street, Carlton

DATE and TIME:  Friday 27 Feb 2009, 3.15 - 4.15 pm (please take note this  
seminar starts 15 minutes later than usual)


ABSTRACT:
Tuck will present highlights of his PhD research which establishes an  
understanding of the User Experience of Serendipity. He also hopes to  
reflect upon his own PhD journey and more importantly, the PhD experience.

Serendipity is a personally meaningful experience arising from chance  
encounters. While people do encounter serendipity in their everyday lives  
(albeit not all the time), serendipity can also arise as a user-experience  
through people's use of interactive technologies such as when listening to  
their digital music in the shuffle mode.

So what is this brand of shuffle-led serendipity? How does serendipity  
arise from not choosing your own songs but instead having it randomly  
(chosen and) presented to you by a music player? Does the practice of  
music listening as well as the technology involved in shuffle listening in  
fact nudge people towards serendipitous encounters? And does it work for  
other digital content besides music, say, photographs? To find out the  
answers as well as hear Tuck's (hopefully more interesting) reflections  
into his (seemingly) long, solitary and occasionally serendipitous PhD  
journey, he would like to see you at the seminar.

BIO:
Tuck Leong is a PhD candidate with the Interaction Design Group,  
Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne.


Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome.
http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.html

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Daryl Ku
PhD Candidate; Interaction Design Group Coordinator

Interaction Design Group
Department of Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
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