1. Ignorance-Based Chance DiscoveryBeyond Dark Events
- Author
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Magnani, Lorenzo, Arfini, Selene, and Bertolotti, Tommaso
- Subjects
Human Computer Interaction ,Chance-DiscoveryMethods ,Abductive Reasoning ,Affordances ,Ignorance - Abstract
The human part of chance-discovery is usually analyzed as aneffect of the agent’s knowledge of herself and of her environment.In this paper, setting off from the importance of “understandingthe meaning of an impending phenomenon as achance,” we will analyze how chance-discovery activities areaffected and driven by the agent’s ignorance, and the relationshipshe entertains with the latter. More specifically, we willspell out two kinds of ignorance that are relevant for chancediscovery,also considering which abductive chance-discoveryprocesses they can be related to.
- Published
- 2015