Sharing Content and Experiences in Smart Environments

This chapter examines how sharing experiences can be supported by new developments in smart environments. It elaborates on the nature of experiences and how they can be shared. It reviews the changing role of end-users of digital services - no longer consumers of ready-made content, but active producers of experiences. The chapter identifies three stages of ubiquitous computing research and indicates how they have supported experience sharing. The chapter closes with an overview of research projects that highlight different aspects of experience sharing