Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)

Informal spaces are spaces open for interaction that contain dynamic features.

practical uses of far public distance for interaction would be reserved for public performance.

kinesics (body language including facial expression)

An acronym for computers as persuasive technologies (CAPT), captology is interested in the ways that digital technology can change the attitudes, ← 11 | 12 →values, and behaviors of users.

When Edward Hall coined the term proxemics in The Hidden Dimension (1966), he used it to mean “social and personal space and man’s perception of it.”5 The role of space in our everyday lives is part of our culture. Our learned behaviors, he argues, are as foundational to our use of space as they are to other forms of verbal and nonverbal communicat

a focus on the user rather than a focus on content.

First, the mutual impacts of space on us and us on space. The physical space we inhabit and our use of it cannot easily be separated. We understand ← 12 | 13 →spaces by being in them and experiencing them.

architectural probabilism. Probabilism assumes that the design of a built environment can increase the likelihood of some actions over others.

determinism. The viewpoint of architectural determinism suggests that the built environment is directly linked to the behavior that occurs in it. The choices we have in a built space—where to sit, how to move, how to interact with co-present others—are dictated by the physical structure.