...actively guide us to learn new things, or help us to achieve goals by deliberately guiding our "perceptual filter bubbles". We envision that this provides people with transparency and agency over their PR and might be a way to widen one's conceptual worldview as well!
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...for the #PurposefulXR workshop at #CHI2025, we envision the opposite: personalized XR as a tool for creating individually and societally beneficial #PersonalizedRealities (PR).
Such PR apps could show us that our (perceptual) worldview is only a subset of what is there to perceive, ...
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🫧 In the future, personalized #XR might lead to "perceptual #FilterBubbles" where we only perceive what we want to see (literally!). In the worst case, everyone will have their own filtered version of reality with little to no connection to those of others.
🚀 In our new vision paper...
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The image has a header with the text "Christopher Katins, Jannis Strecker, Jan Hinrichs, Pascal Knierim, Bastian Pfleging, Thomas Kosch. 2025. ACM CHI 2025. Ad-Blocked Reality - Evaluating User Perceptions of Content Blocking Concepts Using Extended Reality" and the university logos of the author's institutions: HU Berlin, University of St.Gallen, Universität Innsbrück, TU Bergakademie Freiberg.
A collage showing six times the same image with an ad for a soft drink on a billboard. In each image the ad is visually adapted by one of these six concepts: blur, desaturate, partial transparency, full transparency, warning (big sign and "Adblock activated" written beneath), Art (a painting of flowers instead of the ad).
Below the images is text with some illustrative icons: Participants preferred... (1) ...appealing and engaging XR ad-block visualizations. (2) ...temporary or permanent blocking depending on the content. (3) ...automatic blocking for sensitive content, manual blocking for other content.
🚀 Happy to share that our paper "Ad-Blocked Reality: Evaluating User Perceptions of Content Blocking Concepts Using Extended Reality" has been accepted at #CHI2025!
We explored how #XR could be used to block content in the physical world, such as ads, and how users perceive this idea.
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While participants saw benefits like improved focus and privacy, concerns around missing important information and isolation also emerged.
Our findings highlight the need for intuitive #XR ad-blocking controls and we provide guidelines for future content-blocking XR design.
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The image has a header with the text "Christopher Katins, Jannis Strecker, Jan Hinrichs, Pascal Knierim, Bastian Pfleging, Thomas Kosch. 2025. ACM CHI 2025. Ad-Blocked Reality - Evaluating User Perceptions of Content Blocking Concepts Using Extended Reality" and the university logos of the author's institutions: HU Berlin, University of St.Gallen, Universität Innsbrück, TU Bergakademie Freiberg.
A collage showing six times the same image with an ad for a soft drink on a billboard. In each image the ad is visually adapted by one of these six concepts: blur, desaturate, partial transparency, full transparency, warning (big sign and "Adblock activated" written beneath), Art (a painting of flowers instead of the ad).
Below the images is text with some illustrative icons: Participants preferred... (1) ...appealing and engaging XR ad-block visualizations. (2) ...temporary or permanent blocking depending on the content. (3) ...automatic blocking for sensitive content, manual blocking for other content.
🚀 Happy to share that our paper "Ad-Blocked Reality: Evaluating User Perceptions of Content Blocking Concepts Using Extended Reality" has been accepted at #CHI2025!
We explored how #XR could be used to block content in the physical world, such as ads, and how users perceive this idea.
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The 33rd ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (#UMAP2025)
June 16-19 2025,
New York, USA
Website: https://www.um.org/umap2025/
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing. CSCW 2025 will be in Bergen, Norway from October 18–22, 2025: https://cscw.acm.org/2025/.
Next submission deadline: early 2026
The Association for Computing Machinery's Computer-Human Interaction Conference and Steering Committee.
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5-9 July 2025
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Associate Professor at University of Chicago, Computer Science. Runs the Human-Computer Integration Lab (https://lab.plopes.org) & also a musician.
Co-director of Princeton HCI. Faculty at Princeton Computer Science. Board member at Crisis Text Line.
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