Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
The pragmatics of information retrieval experimentation, revisited
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on evaluation issues in information retrieval
Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Information encountering: a conceptual framework for accidental information discovery
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Innovation and evaluation in information exploration interfaces
CHI 98 Cconference Summary on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Finding without seeking: the information encounter in the context of reading for pleasure
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Understanding and facilitating the browsing of electronic text
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Sharing information encountered for others on the Web
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: serendipity and its role in web search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Discovery is never by chance: designing for (un)serendipity
Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition
Chance encounters in the digital library
ECDL'09 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
The process of serendipity in knowledge work
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Incidental exposure to online news
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Everyday serendipity as described in social media
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Brookes equation: The basis for a qualitative characterization of information behaviours
Journal of Information Science
An interface for opportunistic discovery of information for young people
HCII'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction: users and applications - Volume Part IV
Exploring serendipity's precipitating conditions
INTERACT'11 Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part IV
Digital humanities: the continuing role of serendipity in historical research
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
Promoting serendipity online: recommendations for tool design
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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Experimental research of opportunistic acquisition of information (OAI) is difficult to design due to the overall opacity of OAI to both the information users and to the researchers. Information encountering (IE) is a specific type of OAI where during search for information on one topic information users accidentally come across information related to some other topic of interest. Building on our prior descriptive investigation of IE, we developed a conceptual framework that explains IE as stopping of information seeking activities for a foreground problem due to noticing, examining, and capturing of information related to some background problem. With objective to evoke IE in users' information behavior and record users' actions during an IE episode, we created a controlled laboratory situation, intended to trigger participants' experience of IE during an information retrieval task. We report about the methodological challenges experienced in this effort and share lessons learned for future experimental studies of opportunistic acquisition of information.