In 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.
Keywords Interactive media - Dynamic networks - Personalized and wearable interface - Content management - Mobile mixed reality - Virtual humans - Geolocalization