From Me to We: Shared Multi-User Personalized Experiences in Smart Environments
Type
conference contribution
Date Issued
2026-10-11
Author(s)
Abstract
Personalized experiences within single-user applications have become ubiquitous, yet when multiple people share a physical space, smart environments are either made to adapt to individual user preferences or to stereotypical predefined groups. Hence, mechanisms and design principles are needed to blend and share individual preferences. In this paper, we propose a multi-user music playback scenario and prototype a decentralized application that combines Solid Pods to store users’ music and sharing preferences, and a Mixed Reality application that enables users to blend individual preferences into a collective music experience using smart speakers. We take this exploratory scenario to suggest relevant design dimensions to consider when creating solutions for shared multi-user personalized experiences in smart environments.
Keywords
smart environments
multi-user personalization
music recommendation
personalization
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Pages
5
Event Title
2026 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Event Location
Shanghai, China
Event Date
October 11 - 15, 2026
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Contact Email Address
jannis.strecker-bischoff@unisg,ch
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Shared_Multi_User_Personalized_Experiences_in_Smart_Environments___UbiComp_26_Poster___June_6-3.pdf
Size
1.47 MB
Format
Adobe PDF
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