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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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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