WWW as a shared device The world wide web is a shared device But it's personalized because Personalization is not always good. (Pat) Chefs know better how to mix things so perhaps people would be better off being told what to do. Or you can tell the chef your preferences and the chef does the actual customization. Shared device domains? other than office where else are there personalizations? airport printers, non-owned collective device seems like anything really expensive and hard to carry Difference between customization and personalization customization is the process of setting up the personalized environment personalization is the act of selecting the customization personalization exposes you to risk how can personalization be made non-scary build trust incrementally system developers don't include trust into their evaluations customize things as people do what they normally do Examples of personalization some times it's for self presentation failure in personalization of the experience can lead the user to blame themselves Personalization and ubicomp We need to allow people to personalize to the context Customization is even better if the user doesn't even know Do you need other people to be aware of your personalization settings? Personalize without explicit customization is good BUT completely transparent customization can be bad because you don't know how to fix problem when it comes up software is also very soft and hard to tell what personalizations are happening PIPS architecture