Personalized, Mediated Human-Computer Interaction

This paper discuss recent technological advances which provide opportunities for increasingly complex and fruitful interactions between users and information and communications technologies. It examines the need for personalization of interactions and the barriers to achieving this goal. A new paradigm of mediated interaction is introduced as a possible means of facilitating interactions with ubiquitous computing devices, in a manner which supports continuous usability evaluations and effective, user-controlled personalization of interactions. Details are provided regarding proposed research on this topic.