Marie Curie Alumni Association UK Chapter, UCL, 4/03/2017

Divine Madness in Action: Creativity and Serendipity Engineering Niki Lambropoulos PhD

Author, Creative Flow & Immersive Experience HCI Expert, Educator

Marie Curie said: Be more curious about ideas. Einstein also said: Imagination can take

us anywhere. Why? Why imagination and ideas are so important? And how can we

engineer the creativity process?

We cure diseases and live longer without suffering with medicine. We fly with the birds

with planes. We swim with the fish with equipment. We travel to the stars with rockets.

We connect in time and space with Internet. Yes, we can. We can play Gods. We evolve

exactly because we can imagine the impossible. We extend our abilities using our ideas

to create artefacts so to expand our abilities. And afterwards our perception fills in the

new world.

In my research, I suggested a new form of intelligence, Chrono-Spatial Intelligence

(CSI), this is time-space intelligence. This is the perception of apparent and hidden

connections so to form an idea and start the creativity process. If you can perceive and

analyse such connections I assume you can engineer them as a series of fortunate events.

This is Serendipity Engineering. We may play Gods.

How can I engineer serendipity in human connections, with the best medium today,

social media? Sometimes in magical situations, the user finds a series of fortunate or

even unfortunate items pushing and pulling towards directions and significant clicks,

developing specific trajectories. These connections are rather underpinning the creativity

matrix. To consciously search for serendipity via a random, surprising and pleasant user

experience, one may need all the methods, tools and data in the world, both on a micro

and massive scale.

To click or not to click, is a bipolar decision making process occurring in the brain that

includes hesitation; this is actually easy to analyse with sentiment analysis. Every word

has subjective shade. Semantics! And is it possible to engineering randomness? Yes,

without overspecialising concept categories. So my current research is on Ideas and

Serendipity Engineering via semantics and sentiment analysis for social media micro-

blogging.

Serendipity Engineering is the machine manipulation of such fortunate series created by

a platform with the help of the user so to connect the nodes. Sentiment analysis is

conducted on the user’s decision making process coded as green, red and grey. Then I

work on the connections using semantics analysis revealing Chrono-Spatial Intelligence

for educational and business purposes.

Imagine the impossible and be curious about ideas and how to apply and add value to the

world. Engineering the Matrix? Yes we can!