Personalization and Collectivization at the Intersection of the Virtual and Physical Worlds
Joseph F. McCarthy Abstract:The personalization of an individual computer user's experience of the virtual world, especially with respect to one's interactions with the Internet and World Wide Web, has received a great deal of attention. However, many of us continue to spend most of our time in the physical world, and much of this time is spent in the company of others. We are exploring how we might best take advantage of what the virtual world has to offer in specific contexts in the physical world. In particular, we are developing systems that adapt physical spaces by allocating influence over certain aural and visual aspects of these spaces collectively to the group of people inhabiting those spaces at any given time. |