Personal space: An unobtrusive measures study

Unobtrusive Tabletops: Linking Personal Devices with Regular Tables

In this paper we argue that for wide deployment, interactive surfaces should be embedded in real environments as unobtrusively as possible. Rather than deploying dedicated interactive furniture, in environments such as pubs, cafés, or homes it is often more acceptable to augment existing tables with interactive functionality. One example is the use of robust camera-projector systems in real-wor...

Personal Protection Measures against Arthropods

THE PERSONAL LIVING SPACE CUE INVENTORY An Analysis and Evaluation

The authors introduce the Personal Living Space Cue Inventory (PLSCI), designed to document comprehensively features of personal living spaces (PLSs); common examples of PLSs include rooms in family households, dormitories, or residential centers. The article describes the PLSCI’s development and provides evidence for its reliability and sensitivity. Next, the authors employ case-study comparis...

Personal Space Augmented Reality Tool

In this work, we present a new psychometric tool for modelling and analysing social interactions. We focus on the concept of interpersonal spaces which are the distances unconsciously established by people between them. The measure of these distances can give us a hint on how people know each other. Our main goal was to create a tool to simplify experimentation in this area of research within s...

Situational Transformation of Personal Space

This paper describes an experimental study that investigated how interpersonal distance varied depending on situational factors, as well as postures and gender. The results revealed statistically significant simple main effects of the “task”, “combination of bodily directions”, and “devices”. Interpersonal distances were affected by the differences between: (a) “without task > with a task”, (b)...