Towards Societally Beneficial Personalized Realities: A Conceptual Foundation for Responsible Ubiquitous Personalization Systems
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2025-07-05
Author(s)
Research Team
Interactions Research Group (https://interactions.ics.unisg.ch)
Abstract
Personalization of online realities is today ubiquitous to support decision making or reduce information overload. Recently, through the expanding capabilities and pervasiveness of Mixed Reality and Ubiquitous Computing technologies, we observe increasing personalization also of physical reality. This might yield more convenient, efficient and inclusive everyday interactions. However, it may readily lead to serious societal consequences such as the loss of shared worlds and the emergence of perceptual filter bubbles. To mitigate such harms while retaining the benefits of personalization, it is important to understand how ubiquitous personalization systems may operate responsibly. Responding to this need, we propose a conceptual model that overcomes the limitations of established personalization models and expands their applicable scope to physical, virtual, and hybrid environments. We validated our model in relation to existing literature and show how it provides a conceptual foundation for the analysis and study of responsible personalization systems that create individually and societally beneficial Personalized Realities.
Language
English
Keywords
personalization
mixed reality
societal implications
mediated reality
conceptual model
responsible computing
augmented reality
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Publisher place
New York, USA
Pages
23
Event Title
ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2025
Event Location
Madeira, Portugal
Event Date
July 5 -9, 2025
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Contact Email Address
jannisrene.strecker@unisg.ch
Additional Information
This paper received an Honorable Mention Award.
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