Interview transcripts: Brett Binst, Lien Michiels, and Annelien Smets (2025). What Is Serendipity? An Interview Study to Conceptualize Experienced Serendipity in Recommender Systems. In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP '25)

In this repository we provide the interview transcripts on which we based “Brett Binst, Lien Michiels, and Annelien Smets. 2025. What Is Serendipity? An Interview Study to Conceptualize Experienced Serendipity in Recommender Systems. In 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP ’25), June 16–19, 2025, New York City, NY, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 10 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3699682.3728325” Small talk not related to the research topic, information that make the respondents identifiable, and sensitive information about the respondents are removed from the transcripts. Afterwards, the interviews have been translated to English, since they were originally done in Dutch. We have translated the interviews with the help of ChatGPT 4o. We turned off the “Improve the model for everyone” option. All translations have been carefully proofread and compared to the original transcript in order to guarantee a translation that remains authentic to the original interview. All respondents also gave their informed consent for publishing these interview transcripts on Zenodo.本仓库提供了支撑下述学术研究的访谈转录文本：Brett Binst、Lien Michiels与Annelien Smets于2025年发表的《何为意外发现？一项旨在概念化推荐系统中用户感知的意外发现的访谈研究》，该成果收录于第33届ACM用户建模、自适应与个性化会议（UMAP ’25），会议于2025年6月16日至19日在美国纽约州纽约市举办，由ACM出版社于纽约出版，全文共10页，DOI链接为https://doi.org/10.1145/3699682.3728325。 访谈转录文本已先剔除与研究主题无关的闲聊内容、可识别受访者身份的信息，以及涉及受访者的敏感信息。由于访谈原始语言为荷兰语，后续已将其译为英语，翻译工作借助ChatGPT 4o完成，且已禁用"Improve the model for everyone"选项。所有译稿均经过细致校对，并与原始转录文本逐一比对，以确保译文忠实于原始访谈的内容与原意。 所有受访者均已签署知情同意书，授权将上述访谈转录文本发布至Zenodo平台。