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Change Your Perspective, Widen Your Worldview! Societally Beneficial Perceptual Filter Bubbles in Personalized Reality

Type
conference contribution
Date Issued
2025-04-26
Author(s)
Jannis Rene Strecker  orcid-logo
Luka Jure Lars Bekavac  
Kenan Bektas  orcid-logo
Simon Mayer  orcid-logo
Research Team
Interactions Research Group (https://interactions.ics.unisg.ch)
Abstract
Extended Reality (XR) technologies enable the personalized mediation of an individual's perceivable reality across modalities, thereby creating a Personalized Reality (PR). While this may lead to individually beneficial effects in the form of more efficient, more fun, and safer experiences, it may also lead to perceptual filter bubbles since individuals are exposed predominantly or exclusively to content that is congruent with their existing beliefs and opinions. This undermining of a shared basis for interaction and discussion through constrained perceptual worldviews may impact society through increased polarization and other well-documented negative effects of filter bubbles. In this paper, we argue that this issue can be mitigated by increasing individuals' awareness of their current perspective and providing avenues for development, including through support for engineered serendipity and fostering of self-actualization that already show promise for traditional recommender systems. We discuss how these methods may be transferred to XR to yield valuable tools to give people transparency and agency over their perceptual worldviews in a responsible manner.
Language
English
Keywords
Personalization
Extended Reality
Worldviews
Perception
Philosophy
Ubiquitous Computing
Augmented Reality
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Pages
6
Event Title
Purposeful XR: Affordances, Challenges, and Speculations for an Ethical Future (Purposeful XR ’25), co-located with CHI 2025
Event Location
Yokohama, Japan
Event Date
26/04/2025
URL
https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/122376
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computer science

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ICS - Institute of Co...

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jannisrene.strecker@unisg.ch
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