Abstract:
Environmental factors affecting
shared spaces are typically designed to appeal to the
broadest audiences they are expected to serve, ignoring
the preferences of the people actually inhabiting the
environment at any given time. Examples of such factors
include the lighting, temperature, décor or music in the
common areas of an office building. We have designed and
deployed MusicFX, a group preference arbitration system
that allows the members of a fitness center to influence,
but not directly control, the selection of music in a
fitness center. We present a number of empirical results
from our work with this intelligent environment: the
results of a poll of fitness center members, a
quantitative evaluation of the performance of a group
preference arbitrator in a shared environment, and some
interesting anecdotes about members' experiences with the
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