proxemics in English
noun
1
the branch of knowledge that deals with the amount of space that people feel it necessary to set between themselves and others.
After analyzing logs from V-Chat sessions, Microsoft Research found that ‘Overall, V-Chat users appear to be using the 3D features of the program to reproduce the social conventions of physical proxemics .’
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1. Calhoun's rat studies were used as a basis in the development of Edward T. Hall's 1966 proxemics theories.