Magnenat-Thalmann, NadiaPeternier, AchilleRighetti, XavierLim, MingyuPapagiannakis, GeorgeFragopoulos, TasosLambropoulou, KyriakiBarsocchi, PaoloThalmann, Daniel2008-08-262008-08-262008-08-26200810.1007/s00371-008-0264-6https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/27492WOS:00025738480003812711In this paper, we introduce a European research project, interactive media with personal networked devices (INTERMEDIA) in which we seek to progress beyond home and device-centric convergence toward truly user-centric convergence of multimedia. Our vision is to make the user the multimedia center: the user as the point at which multimedia services and the means for interacting with them converge. This paper proposes the main research goals in providing users with a personalized interface and content independent of physical networked devices, and space and time. As a case study, we describe an indoors, mobile mixed reality guide system: Chloe@University. With a see-through head-mounted display (HMD) connected to a small wearable computing device, Chloe@University provides users with an efficient way to guide someone in a building. A 3D virtual character in front of the user guides him/her to the required destination.Interactive mediaDynamic networksPersonalized and wearable interfaceContent managementMobile mixed realityVirtual humansGeolocalizationtext::journal::journal article::research article