proxemics

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"proxemics" measures how far apart people like to be when conducting different kinds of conversation.

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  1. noun The study of the cultural, behavioral, and sociological aspects of spatial distances between individuals.

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  • "proxemics" measures how far apart people like to be when conducting different kinds of conversation. —  BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
  • Animations of these behaviors can be viewed at agent_based artificial_life autonomous cellular_automata collective_behavior collision_avoidance crowd crowd_model dynamic e-learning flocking group helbing_model high-density learning multi_robot navigation panic pathfinding pedestrian prm proxemics psychology review riots roadmap rule-based shepherding signals simulation small_group social social_computing social_force social_network sociology spatial steering swarm threshold_model voronoi whca —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. prox(imity) + -emics (as in phonemics).
 

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