Jannis Strecker-Bischoff

🌐 How does the adaptive Web shape society?
With #personalization and #AI increasingly influencing how we learn, communicate, and collaborate, it is time to critically reflect on the broader societal implications of adaptive systems.
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🔹 AI-fueled Personalization (e.g., LLM-based systems)
🔹 #Privacy, transparency & user control
🔹 Group modeling & collaborative adaptation
🔹 #AR/#VR/#XR and hybrid environments
🔹 Societal risks and long-term effects of #personalization
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My co-organizers Laura Stojko, Eelco Herder, Julia Seitz, Thomas Neumayr, Enes Yigitbas, Mirjam Augstein, and me are looking forward to inspiring contributions and discussions!

We invite contributions on topics including:
🔹 Personalization & recommendation
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The workshop will be held at the ACM Web Science Conference 2026 ( #WebSci2026 ):
📍 Braunschweig, Germany
🗓 May 26, 2026

📅 Submission deadline: March 17, 2026 (AoE)
📄Full papers, late-breaking work, and demos welcome (ACM two-column format)
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We invite submissions on this topic for the ABIS 2026 workshop, which this year has the theme ‘The Impact of the Adaptive Web on Society’.

👉 Submit via EasyChair: easychair.org/cfp/abis2026
🔗 More details: fg-abis.gi.de/veranstaltun...
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🌐 How does the adaptive Web shape society?
With #personalization and #AI increasingly influencing how we learn, communicate, and collaborate, it is time to critically reflect on the broader societal implications of adaptive systems.
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📢 The submission deadline for Short Papers is approaching soon (October 10, 2025, AoE)!

Researchers, designers, artists, and practitioners worldwide are warmly invited to contribute!

👉 Submit here: easychair.org/my/conferenc...
📄 Call for papers: alpchi.org/call-for-pap...

#AlpCHI2026 #HCI

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The AlpCHI submission portal is now open: easychair.org/my/conferenc... 🚀

We have two current calls for contributions:
- Papers: alpchi.org/call-for-pap...
- Revisiting HCI Research: alpchi.org/call-for-rev...

We look forward to receiving your submissions! 😀

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We are pleased to invite paper submissions to the first ever AlpCHI – our new international HCI summit in the alps!

⛰️Inspired by the beautiful mountainous region, we look forward to exciting contributions about HCI in action, at the summit, in the wild, and exploring the limits.

Thanks to my co-authors Luka Bekavac, Kenan Bektas, and Simon Mayer!

📑 To know more, read the full paper here: doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Or have a chat with me at #CHI2025 next week in #Yokohama! 🗾

#Worldviews #PersonalizedReality #Personalization #MR
#AR #Reality

...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!

...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, ...

🫧 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...

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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Ad-Blocked Reality: Evaluating User Perceptions of Content Blocking Concepts Using Extended Reality | HCIstudio Inspired by the concepts of diminishing reality and ad-blocking in browsers, this study investigates the perceived benefits and concerns of blocking physical, real-world content, particularly ads, thr...

This research was conducted in collaboration by Christopher Katins, myself, Jan Hinrichs, Pascal Knierim, Bastian Pfleging, and Thomas Kosch. Thank you all!

👉 Read the full paper here: hu.berlin/ad-blocked-r...

#AdBlocking #AugmentedReality #Advertising #DiminishedReality #AdBlock

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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