MASS Gallery will present "Proxemics," an exhibition featuring six artists who wield the human body as a tool for communication through character creation, distortion, and documentation. The artists ...

Researchers in Japan are using "robotic social trash boxes" to investigate interactions between humans and robots for improving robot-to-human communications. Toyohashi Tech researchers use 'robotic ...

Remember the Seinfeld episode about the close talker? In this time of social distancing, it’s worth thinking about how our individual boundary style, as well as our personality, shape our response to ...

The study of what people communicate by standing closer, or farther away, is called Proxemics. Combined with the study of body language (known as Kinesics) and touch (called Haptics), it is an ...

Smile carries a lot of meaning across cultures. When working in China, I’ve learned that smiling is a sign of nervousness which can be misinterpreted by us (Israel, Europe, the US, let’s call it our ...

In cultural anthropology, proxemics is the research of peoples’ relationship with and use of space, be it as part of nonverbal communication or other forms of interaction. The improv power trio of ...

If you really want to freak people out some time, get in an elevator and ride facing the back of the car. The other passengers will think you’re nuts. Why? There are many unwritten social conventions ...

In South Africa, lockdown and its excesses have opened up questions on the limits of an ethics of care, whose ethics are privileged, how care is delivered, and what care means. We show how an ethics ...