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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Proxemics"”.
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21st Century Hall: Proxemics and Gender Interactions in Contemporary Research
… A specific form of nonverbal communication is proxemics - the human use of space. Edward T. Hall (1966) coined this term during the early 1950s, and designed a guideline in his first book for the four zones of space: public space, social space, personal space, and intimate space. Like many …
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Cross-cultural inter-personal space in assumed counselling relationships with same and opposite sex pairs, and counsellors' perspectives on proxemics
… inter-personal experiences with regard to proxemics, fired my aspiration to bring into relief the thread of proximity when relating inter-personally. It also fuelled my wondering about which factors led to healthy inter-personal relating, and whether proxemics played a role in this. The …
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Exploring Tabletops as an Interaction Medium in the Context of Reservoir Engineering
… the Spidey testbed we explored the notion of proxemics between a user and a robotic tabletop assistant and performed a user study in which participants interacted with Spidey. Thus in the results, we also discuss the proxemics results reflecting on the interaction between people and tabletop …
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Pamela on Directing Three the Hard Way: An Exploration of Theatrical and Communicative Processes.
… director's prompt book illustrates the use of proxemics in creating picturizations for the stage. In addition, the exploration of the directing process and the progression of the production are examined in daily journal entries. The successes of the directorial approach and implementations are …
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The role of proximity in human-agent trust
… theories of social cognition, embodiment, and proxemics, this research proposes that proximity—beyond physical distance—functions as a multidimensional construct that governs how humans perceive, interpret, and calibrate trust toward agents. Across three studies, this dissertation …
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How Can Robots Adapt To A Social Human World? A Study Into The Role Gestures Can Play In Human-Robot Relations
… to explore a largely unresearched area in proxemics: the idea that loose, “bouncing†arms led to lower attributions of dominance than stiff, fixed arms. Our research highlighted the importance of gestures in communication, particularly among people who tended to look at robots as more …
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MeBot : A robotic platform for socially embodied telepresence
… expressive gestures, body language or pose and proxemics will allow for a more engaging and enjoyable interaction. An iterative design process of the MeBot platform is described in detail as well as the design of supporting systems and various control interfaces. A human subject study was …
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Charting the ephemeral : sound installation as embodied, synsonic mapping
… weather maps, radar, spaces of representation, proxemics, architecture, and embodiment. Through these different interrogations, the sound installation is understood as an aural cartographic process that suggests a multi-layered way of knowing about a location through sound. The organized, …
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Phenomenal Things
… yet subtly-interactive experience using proxemics to create an interactive narrative where participants can create emotional bonds with the AR actors in this immersive theater experiment.
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The effect of nonverbal communication training on the acquisition of sign language.
… of kinesics, eye movement, facial expression, proxemics, chronemics, haptics, and artifacts, concurrently with their participation in the BITP. A rating instrument was devised and administered that measured the subject's performance on thirteen expressive and receptive sign language skills. A …
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KinaeSonic Frameworks: Practicing dramaturgical thinking in dance and music improvisation-as-performance from a Rhythm Tap practitioner perspective
… I have developed two concepts: Horizontal Proxemics of Practice, and the Creation Timeframe Continuum that have shaped the research outcomes and are shared in this written thesis as contributions to knowledge.
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Investing a Studio with Meaning: The Construction of Fictional Space in British Television Drama and the Police Series of 1955-82
… in Theatre Studies, that pays close attention to proxemics, space and performance. This enables the thesis to chart the aesthetic development of studio fiction, explore the plurality of the studio technique and assess the role space itself has in the visual articulation of character and themes. As …
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An exploration into young children's embodied engagement with storyworlds through curated storyworld play
… Analysis also identified how changes in proxemics were aligned with two types of engagement: engaging from outside of storyworlds and engaging from inside of storyworlds. These types of engagement were fluid, with children oscillating back and forth between engaging inside and outside of …
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Enabling Collaborative Visual Analysis across Heterogeneous Devices
… of large displays by finding a balance between proxemics and mid-air gestures. Extending these techniques, we considered the roles of different devices–large and small–to present a conceptual framework for utilizing multiple devices for visual analytics. When applying this framework, findings …
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HABILIDAD ARGUMENTATIVA EN HISPANOHABLANTES CON AFASIA PROGRESIVA PRIMARIA: UNA COMPARACIÓN TRANSCULTURAL SEGÚN EL NIVEL DE ESCOLARIZACIÓN Y EL REPERTORIO LINGÜÍSTICO
… audio-visually recorded to capture gestures and proxemics, is structured in three parts, each corresponding to a different argumentative stimulus (textual, graphic, conversational). By means of a text, images and a debate, it was possible to collect data from three different perspectives of …
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Territorial Violence and Design, 1950-2010: A Human-Computer Study of Personal Space and Chatbot Interaction
… The thesis re-interprets Edward Hall’s work on proxemics, personal space and territoriality, using techniques of the bricoleur and rudiments (an undeveloped and speculative method of practice), to understand chatbot techniques such as the pick-up, their entrapment logics, their repetitions of …
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The Effects of Instructor-Avatar Immediacy in Second Life, an Immersive and Interactive 3D Virtual Environment
… features and nonverbal behaviors such as proxemics and gestures, facial expression, lip synchronization and eye contact.
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Illumination Level as an Influence Factor on Proxemic Behavior
This study used Michelson's (1976) Intersystems Congruence Model and Hall's (1966) theories of proxemic zones to guide in the investigation of illumination level's influence on proxemic behavior. This study attempted to determine potential influence of the effect of bright or dim lighting …
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Landscape architecture and gender
… of space by virtue of a sensitivity to proxemics, by embracing subjectivity as a design strategy, by embarking on site analysis that involves much more that one view or the layering activity from one vantage point (thereby avoiding the danger of a single story) characterises the enquiry …
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