Publicaties
Living Labs and designed serendipity: collaboratively discovering the UDUBSit & Mfunzi emerging platforms Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Serendipity in Recommender Systems Beyond the Algorithm: a Feature Repository and Experimental Design Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Serendipity in recommender systems is ought to improve the quality and usefulness of recommendations. However, despite the increasing amount of attention in both research and practice, designing for serendipity in recommenders continues to be challenging. We argue that this is due to the narrow interpretation of serendipity as an evaluation metric for algorithmic performance. Instead, we venture that serendipity in recommenders should be ...
Serendipity in the city: User evaluations of urban recommender systems Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum vzw Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Blind Spots in AI: the Role of Serendipity and Equity in Algorithm-Based Decision-Making Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Decolonisation of the Smart City through Degrowth and Serendipity Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this article we posit that serendipity might be a facilitating factor of urban transitions. We start from the idea that the Smart City has been colonised by the narrative of growth. Its current focus on economic growth, eco-modernism and techno-determinism is not only leading to environmental and social challenges at the urban level, it is also representing a threat to the success of transition processes. We propose to look at this issue ...