Creativity and collaboration: Revisiting cybernetic serendipity

Innovative methods in health information behaviour research

“…Bernier, 1960), and for the value of building on the work and instruments of other researchers (McCay-Peet et al, 2015). Although serendipity has featured in the literature of both Information Science and Health Science, with renewed interest (Forrester, 2019;Shneiderman, 2019), it is not often a focus in studies of information behaviour. The health literature reveals many potential subjects for health information behaviour researchers, and for further assessment of the instrument, e.g., serendipity in drug discoveries, diseases and dysfunctions (De Clercq, 2015;Goldstein et al, 2019;Michelucci, 2019).…”