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Chance discovery in online communities is the serendipitous meeting of two people with a background or interest in common. It is a solution to some problem that the community has, but that solution must come from without. In this chapter, we separate the area into three facets, chance discovery of online communities, between communities, and within a community. This separation is adequate to capture most contemporary research. We examine and illuminate the technological case where computer systems have been designed to actively assist humans in the discovery process.
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McArthur, R., Bruza, P. (2003). Dimensional Representations of Knowledge in an Online Community. In: Ohsawa, Y., McBurney, P. (eds) Chance Discovery. Advanced Information Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06230-2_8
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