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🥽 What happens in a society when everyone sees a different version of reality?

Together with Luka Bekavac, Simon Mayer, and Kenan Bektas, I explore this question in our new paper: "Connecting Personalized Realities: Challenges and Opportunities in a Personalized Society". I will be presenting it at the SAXR Workshop at CHI 2026!

👉 Read the paper: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/125161

#XR #AR #AI #Personalization #HCI #PersonalizedSociety #CHI2026
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Jannis Strecker-Bischoff

Advances in XR and AI are making it possible for people to perceive the world through personalized filters, creating a Personalized Reality (PR). As such personalized mediation of reality becomes ubiquitous, individual PRs aggregate into what we call a Personalized Society (PSoc), where people predominantly access information and interact with others through a personalized mediation of reality.
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Jannis Strecker-Bischoff 2d ago

To retain the benefits of personalization without losing the shared social realities that connect us, we propose two initial design directions worth exploring:
💠 Bridging across individual realities, by designing systems that allow people to selectively share parts of their personalized perspective with others.
💠Embedding social values into personalization algorithms, so that what gets surfaced to individuals still reflects broader communal interests, not just engagement metrics.
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Jannis Strecker-Bischoff 2d ago

We also discuss what this means for interpersonal communication, public institutions, urban life, and regulation, including how frameworks like the EU Digital Services Act would need to evolve for a world where personalization shapes not just your feed, but your perception of physical reality.
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