SBO Project with primary societal finality: Serendipity Engine: towards surprising and interesting urban experiences

Research output

Research output per year 2023 2024 2025 2025

• 8 Conference paper
• 5 Chapter
• 3 Article
• 2 Blog
• 3 More
  • 1 Book
  • 1 Foreword/postscript
  • 1 Other contribution

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  A Bourdieusian theory on communicating an opinion about AI governance

  Binst, B., Bircan, T. & Smets, A., Jun 2025, In: AI & Society. 40, 5, p. 3431-3473 43 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Handbook of Platform Urbanism

  Smets, A. (ed.) & Ballon, P. (ed.), 2025, (Accepted/In press) Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research

• Intended, Afforded, and Experienced Serendipity: Overcoming the Paradox of Artificial Serendipity

  Smets, A., Jun 2025, In: Ethics and Information Technology. 27, 3, p. 1-14 14 p., 33.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• Introduction to the Handbook of Platform Urbanism

  Ballon, P. & Smets, A., 2025, (Accepted/In press) Handbook of Platform Urbanism. Smets, A. & Ballon, P. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research

• Mitigating Misleadingness in LLM-Generated Natural Language Explanations for Recommender Systems: Ensuring Broad Truthfulness Through Factuality and Faithfulness

  Maes, U., Michiels, L. & Smets, A., 2025, (Accepted/In press) Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2025 Workshops co-located with the 30th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2025). CEUR Workshop Proceedings

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

  Open Access

• Report on NORMalize: The Second Workshop on the Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems

  Starke, A. D., Vrijenhoek, S., Michiels, L., Kruse, J. & Tintarev, N., 14 Jan 2025, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on the Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems (NORMalize 2024): co-located with the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2024). CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 3898. 7 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

  Open Access

• What is Serendipity? An Interview Study to Conceptualize Experienced Serendipity in Recommender Systems

  Binst, B., Michiels, L. & Smets, A., 17 Jun 2025, Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. The ACM Digital Library, p. 243-252 10 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

  Open Access
• 2024

  Challenges and opportunities for recommender systems in media markets

  Ranaivoson, H. R., Smets, A. & Ballon, P., 20 May 2024, De Gruyter Handbook of Media Economics. Rohn, U., von Rimscha, B. & Raats, T. (eds.). Boston, Berlin: De Gruyter, p. 215-228 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  File
  2 Downloads (Pure)

• Evaluating the Long-Term Impact of Recommender Systems

  Barraza-Urbina, A., Brusilovsky, P., Cai, W., Falk, K., Goethals, B., Konstan, J. A., Porcaro, L., Smets, A., Smith, B., Tkalcic, M., Torkamaan, H. & Willemsen, M. C., 2024, Evaluation Perspectives of Recommender Systems: Driving Research and Education (Dagstuhl Seminar 24211). Bauer, C., Said, A. & Zangerle, E. (eds.). Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Vol. 14. p. 146-171 25 p. (Dagstuhl Seminar Report).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research

  Open Access

• GenUI(ne) CRS: UI Elements and Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Conversational Recommender Systems with LLMs

  Maes, U., Michiels, L. & Smets, A., 8 Oct 2024, Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Bari: ACM, p. 1177-1179 3 p. (RecSys 2024 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

  Open Access

  File
  82 Downloads (Pure)

• How to Evaluate Serendipity in Recommender Systems: the Need for a Serendiptionnaire

  Binst, B., 8 Oct 2024, RecSys '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Bari: ACM, p. 1335-1341 7 p. (RecSys 2024 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

  Open Access

• Informed Dataset Selection with ‘Algorithm Performance Spaces’

  Beel, J., Wegmeth, L., Michiels, L. & Schulz, S., 8 Oct 2024, RecSys '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Di Noia, T., Lops, P., Joachims, T., Verbert, K., Castells, P., Dong, Z. & London, B. (eds.). ACM, p. 1085-1090 6 p. (RecSys 2024 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

  Open Access

  File
  6 Downloads (Pure)

• NORMalize 2024: The Second Workshop on Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems

  Starke, A. D., Vrijenhoek, S., Michiels, L., Kruse, J. & Tintarev, N., 8 Oct 2024, RecSys 2024 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. ACM, p. 1242-1244 3 p. (RecSys 2024 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

  Open Access

  File
  8 Downloads (Pure)

• Policy Brief #79 - Wetenschapscommunicatie en AI in Vlaanderen

  Translated title of the contribution: Policy Brief #79 - Science communication and AI in FlandersVandenbroucke, H., Smets, A. & Peeters, J., 26 Sept 2024, https://smit.research.vub.be/en/policy-brief-79-wetenschapscommunicatie-en-ai-in-vlaanderen

  Research output: Other contribution

• Serendipiteit in de Slimme stad

  Smets, A., 2024, Brieven aan de stad. Dertien12 & De Republiek (eds.). Architectuuratelier Dertien12, p. 150-155 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Vulgarizing

  Open Access

  File
  5 Downloads (Pure)

• Theory of Evaluation: Evaluation Perspectives of Recommender Systems: Driving Research and Education (Dagstuhl Seminar 24211)

  Hurley, N., Anelli, V. W., Bellogín, A., Jeunen, O., Michiels, L., Parra, D., Santos, R. L. T. & Tuzhilin, A., 26 Nov 2024, Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 14, Issue 5 . Bauer, C., Said, A. & Zangerle, E. (eds.). 5 ed. Germany, Vol. 14. p. 69-91 23 p. (Dagstuhl Reports).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research

  Open Access

• Towards a Pragmatic Approach for studying Normative Recommender Systems: Exploring Power Dynamics in Digital Platform Markets

  Binst, B., Vandenbroucke, H., Li, D., Puskas, I., Van der Elst, P. & Smets, A., 12 Feb 2024, In: CEUR workshop proceedings. 3639, NA, p. 1-14 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference paper

  Open Access

  File
  160 Downloads (Pure)
• 2023

  Designing for Serendipity, a Means or an End?

  Smets, A., 2023, In: Journal of Documentation. 79, 3, p. 589-607 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • common good 100%
  • abstraction 85%
  • typology 69%
  • literature 68%
  • threat 54%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

  254 Downloads (Pure)

• How Should We Measure Filter Bubbles? A Regression Model and Evidence for Online News

  Michiels, L., Vannieuwenhuyze, J., Leysen, J., Verachtert, R., Smets, A. & Goethals, B., 14 Sept 2023, Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. ACM Digital Library, p. 640–651 12 p. (Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2023).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper

  Open Access

  • Recommender systems 100%
  • Websites 85%
  • Collaborative filtering 37%
  • Acoustic waves 26%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• Let go of the one-size-fits-all definition of serendipity

  Binst, B. & Smets, A., 14 Feb 2023, Serendipity Engine .

  Research output: Contribution to specialist/vulgarizing publication › Blog › Vulgarizing

  Open Access

• Zomerblog: De gespannen relatie tussen digitalisering en serendipiteit

  Binst, B. & Smets, A., 11 Jul 2023, Kenniscentrum Data & Maatschappij.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist/vulgarizing publication › Blog › Vulgarizing