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Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
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Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Ethnochat: an instant messenger program for ethnography
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Mobile Technology for Children: Designing for Interaction and Learning
Mobile Technology for Children: Designing for Interaction and Learning
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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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Understanding experience using dialogical methods: the case of serendipity
Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Nudging towards serendipity: a case with personal digital photos
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Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
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Many people today have access to enormous libraries of digital content. Increasingly these libraries contain personal content, consumed in support of people's non-instrumental needs. If current trends persist, these repositories will only increase. Having to choose from so much could be unpleasant especially in the absence of strong preferences. This raises some concerns for user experience (UX) design. Approaches for such interactions should not only be optimized for UX but must also support users' non-instrumental needs. People face this predicament during digital music listening and yet report positive experiences when listening in shuffle. Through an empirical study of digital music listening and close examination of people's listening practices and experiences, we argue that a shuffle-based approach--whereby people can abdicate choice to a random process while being able to modulate the randomness--not only mitigates the unpleasantness of choosing but also supports their non-instrumental needs while fostering desirable experiential outcomes.