Here you will find Lab’s thematically-related output such as educational modules and publications related to digital creativity and serendipity.

Educational modules

See my entries on Zenodo for a complete overview of openly accessible modules.

The Discovery and Evaluation of Serendipitous Information Encountering in CLARIAH’s Media Suite – in this blog, you will find online teaching modules that focus on how to study serendipitous information encountering in users who explore digital archives such as the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision.

Understanding Search and Serendipitous Discovery Using Tool Criticism (2023, CLARIAH Fellowship DISCERN). This a module that highlights tool criticism as a method to better understand how tool affordances guide or constrain serendipitous information encountering.

Related publications

Leberg, D., & Sauer, S. (2025). Immersive Materiality and Television Production in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019). In P. Bédard, A. Thain, & C. Therrien (Eds.), States of Immersion Across Media: Bodies, Techniques, Practices (pp. 285-303). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789048558766_CH13

Sauer, Sabrina; Hagedoorn, Berber; Aasman, Susan: De-Google-ing’ our Students: A User Approach to Understanding Archival Media Discovery in the Classroom. In: VIEW. Journal of European Television History and Culture, Jg. 13 (2024), Nr. 26, S. 47-61.http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/24073

Aasman, S., Hagedoorn, B., Sauer, S., Baas, I., & Bakker, L. (2023, February 9). Moving Beyond Tool-Oriented Teaching within Digital Humanities: The Challenge of Appropriating the CLARIAH Media Suite Into Tool-Supported Pedagogical Practices (Abstract). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7624998

Sauer, S., & Hagedoorn, B. (2022). Linking Data and Disciplines: Interdisciplinary brokering in digital humanities research. Digital humanities quarterly, 16(3). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/3/000620/000620.html

Sauer. S., & Copeland, S. “Wa/ondering with data – or, Responsibly measuring socio-technical serendipity in the urban environment,” 2021 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), Manchester, United Kingdom, 2021, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ISC253183.2021.9562963.

Willemsen, S., Witschge, T., & Sauer, S. (2021). Improvisation and Entrepreneurial Journalism: Reimagining Innovation. Journalism Studies, 22(11), 1487–1503. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2021.1951618

Buchanan, SA, Sauer, S., Quan-Haase, A., Agarwal, NK., & Erdelez, S. Amplifying chance for positive action and serendipity by design. Proc Assoc Inf Sci Technol. 2020;57:e288. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.288

Sauer, S., & Bonelli, F. (2020). Collective improvisation as a means to responsibly govern serendipity in social innovation processes. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 7(sup2), S44–S63. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2020.1816025

Sauer, S., & Hagedoorn, B. (2019). NarDis: Narrativizing Disruption -How exploratory search can support media researchers to interpret ‘disruptive’ media events as lucid narratives. In E. Renckens, P. Alkhoven, & A. van Hessen (Eds.), CLARIAH : A digital research infrastructure for humanities researchers (pp. 44-45). CLARIAH.

Hagedoorn, B., & Sauer, S. The Researcher as Storyteller: Using Digital Tools for Search and Storytelling with Audio-Visual Materials. In: VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, Jg. 7 (2018-12-31), Nr. 14, S. 150-170.http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14760

Inel, O., Sauer, S., & Aroyo, L. (2018). A study of narrative creation by means of crowds and niches. In A. Bozzon, & M. Venanzi (Eds.), HCOMP 2018 Works in Progress and Demonstration Papers (HCOMP WIP&DEMO 2018): Proceedings of the HCOMP 2018 Works in Progress and Demonstration Papers. Track of the Sixth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2018). Zurich, Switzerland, July 5-8, 2018. (pp. 1-4). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 2173). http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2173/paper1.pdf

Sauer, S. (2017). Audiovisual narrative creation and creative retrieval: how searching for a story shapes the story. Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, 9(2), 37-46. https://doi.org/10.7559/citarj.v9i2.241

Sauer, S., & de Rijke, M. (2016, July). Seeking serendipity: A living lab approach to understanding creative retrieval in broadcast media production. In Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp. 989-992). https://doi.org/10.1145/2911451.29147

Sauer, S. (2013). User Innovativeness in Living Laboratories. Enschede: Center for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT)(PhD thesis).