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Han, Xu. "Investigating proxemics between avatars in virtual reality." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-265528.
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Virtual reality (VR) is being used in a large variety of areas nowadays. To take advantage of VR systems and use them as the substitutions of the physical world in social research, it is necessary to verify that results from experiments in virtual environments are coherent with those expected in the real world. In this study, proxemics was selected to establish consistency between virtual environments (VE) and real environments (RE). Proxemics is a branch of study about personal space and its effects on human behavior. This study mainly focused on the following aspects in proxemics: personal space theory, gender effect on interpersonal distance perception, equilibrium theory, and conversation status effect on mutual gaze. 34 participants (19M:15F) were recruited for the experiment. During the experiment, participants were asked to play the Twenty Questions game in groups of two in both VE and RE. Meanwhile, eye gaze data and interpersonal distance perception ratings were collected. The results were as followed. 1) As in personal space theory, participants associated the same interpersonal relationships with specific interpersonal distances, 2) gender did not have significant effect on personal space, 3) as in equilibrium theory, distance had significant effect on mutual gaze duration, but only when comparing mutual gaze duration under the intimate distance and other distances, 4) and there were more mutual gaze occurring when the dyad was in conversation as concluded from other studies. Causes and limitations in this study were discussed later to address the inconsistency between this study and the corresponding theories.Virtual reality (VR) används på många olika områden. För att utnyttja VR-system och använda dem som fysiska världen i social forskning är det nödvändigt att verifiera att resultaten från experiment i virtuella miljöer är sammanhängande med de i den riktiga världen. I denna studie valdes proxemics för att skapa konsekvens mellan virtuella miljöer (VE) och riktiga miljöer (RE). Proxemics är en gren av studier om personligt utrymme och dess effekter på mänskligt beteende. Denna studie fokuserade på följande aspekter i proxemics: personlig rymdteori, könseffekt på interpersonell avståndsuppfattning, jämviktsteori och konversationsstatuseffekt på ömsesidig blick. 34 deltagare (19M: 15F) rekryterades för experimentet. Under experimentet spelade deltagarna Twenty Questions-spelet i grupper om två i både VE och RE. Samtidigt samlades ögonblåsningsdata och interpersonella distansuppfattningsvärden. Resultaten var som följer. 1) Liksom i den personlig rymdteori hade deltagarna samma interpersonella relationer med specifika interpersonella avstånd, 2) kön hade ingen signifikant effekt på personligt utrymme, 3) liksom i jämviktsteori hade avstånd signifikant effekt på ömsesidig blicklängd men endast när jämföra ömsesidig blicklängd under det intima avståndet och andra avstånd, 4) och det fanns mer ömsesidig blick när dyaden var i konversation som slutsats från andra studier. Orsaker och begränsningar i denna studie diskuterades senare för att förklara inkonsekvensen mellan denna studie och motsvarande teorier.
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McArthur, John A. "Instructional Proxemics creating a place for space in instructional communication discourse /." Connect to this title online, 2008. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1211388654/.
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Abbas, Mohamed Yusoff. "Proxemics in waiting areas of health centres : a cross-cultural study." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14461/.
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The design of waiting areas in Malaysia's health centres appears to ignore human feelings and behaviour. This was observed by the present researcher; similar concerns about waiting areas in health centres in the U.K. have been voiced by other authors such as Beales (1978) and Cammock (1973, 1975. 1983). 'Proxemics' or the interpersonal distance relationship between people in conducting their daily activities within their cultural domain is broadly categorised under the study of human spatial behaviour. There is in abundance of studies on human spatial behaviour. but few have focussed on the cross-cultural aspects. Results from those few studies have not been consistent. the reason being methodological (see Hayduk (1983); Aiello (1987); Bell, et. al., (1996)). However, those studies that can be categorised as 'truly' crosscultural, that involved natives of the country when the study was conducted, and which used the field/naturalistic unobtrusive observation method - that is in conducting the research at the actual setting rather than in laboratories, and making the observations in an inconspicuous manner, have all supported the hypothesis that there are cross-cultural differences. This method, together with a new technique of measurement, was adopted for the present research. It was used to examine differences in proxemics behaviour between people of Western and Eastern cultures, specifically between the British and the Malaysians in health centre waiting areas. This research is intended to uncover the basis on which subjects made their choices about where they would sit in a waiting room. The factors break down into three main classes: those about the subjects themselves, those that relate to the properties of the seating, and those which relate to the presence of other people. Following a literature review it was hypothesised that the observed behaviour of the British subjects would demonstrate a tendency to maintain interpersonal space in their choice of seats, whereas the Malaysian subjects would demonstrate an interest in using the opportunity for social intercourse. Within the limitations of the present research and the Eastern cultural background of the present researcher, the findings from the present study however remained inconclusive. While several of the fmdings seemed to suggest that the British subjects demonstrated a tendency to maintain inter-personal space in their choice of seats, there were also other findings that suggested otherwise.
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Li, Rui. "Comparing Human-Robot Proxemics between Virtual Reality and the Real World." Thesis, KTH, Medieteknik och interaktionsdesign, MID, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-232210.
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Virtual Reality (VR) is gaining more and more popularity as a research tool in the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). To fully deploy the potential of VR and benefit HRI studies, we need to establish the basic understanding of the relationship between the physical, real-world interaction (Live) and VR. This study compared Live and VR HRI with a focus on proxemics, as proxemics preference can reflect comprehensive human intuition, making it suitable to be used to compare Live and VR. To evaluate the influence of different modalities in VR, virtual scenes with different visual familiarity and spatial sound were compared as well. Lab experiments were conducted with a physical Pepper robot and its virtual copy. In both Live and VR, proxemics preferences, the perception of the robot (competence and discomfort) and the feeling of presence were measured and compared. Results suggest that proxemic preferences do not remain consistent in Live and in VR, which could be influenced by the perception of the robot. Therefore, when conducting HRI experiments in VR, the perceptions of the robot need be compared before the experiments. Results also indicate freedom within VR HRI as different VR settings are consistent with each other.
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Bang, GiHoon. "Human-Telepresence Robot Proxemics Interaction : An ethnographic approach to non-verbal communication." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Människa-datorinteraktion, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-347230.
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This research aims to find distinct and crucial factors needed in order to design a better robot through exploring the meaning of movement. The researcher conducted six-weeks of iterative work to collect data via an ethnographic method. The researcher examined the interactions between a telepresence robot and human beings in an authentic environment through the collected data and analyzed it based on proxemics theory. The research observed that the robot was given social space when it approached the participants with pauses in between movements. Furthermore, the research introduces proxemics pivot and its notion. Proxemics pivot refers to the part of the robot that people perceive as a standard point when they adjust the proximity between the robot and themselves. The proxemics pivot was considered “a face” and was attributed social properties; the other parts of the robot did not receive the same consideration.
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Narasimhan, Kavin Preethi. "Computational proxemics : simulation-based analysis of the spatial patterns of conversational groups." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2016. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/23843.
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In real-world conversational groups, interactants adjust their body position and orientation relative to one another in order to see and hear clearly. We use an agent-based modelling approach to compare alternative models for simulating the spatial patterns of conversational groups. The models are based on simple rules that control the movement, positioning, and orientation behaviour of individual agents, which in turn leads to the emergence of agent clusters. We identify which model alternative produces agent clusters with characteristics typical of real-world conversational groups. The centroid-based approach, where agents readjust their position and orientation with respect to the group centroid point, is a commonly used method to simulate conversational groups, but has not been empirically validated. This thesis replicates, evaluates, and validates the centroid-based model in a systematic way. Another model, where agents perform positional-orientational readjustments to see as many neighbours as possible within a 180 field of view, called the field-of-view approach is proposed, implemented, evaluated, and validated. Analysis of the spatial patterns of conversational groups has hitherto mostly relied on visual verification. We, novelly, use a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse the spatial patterns of conversational groups. Evaluations show that the field of- view model and centroid-based model produce agent clusters with significantly different social, spatial, and temporal characteristics. Validation is performed using a dataset which captures the spatial behaviour of 21 participants for the entire duration of a party. This validation shows that the characteristics of agent clusters resulting from the field-of-view model most closely reflects the characteristics of real-world conversational groups. We also show that a local neighbourhood influence works better than an extended neighbourhood influence to simulate conversational groups. The influence of objects in the environment on the spatial patterns of agent clusters are also discussed.
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Mariano, Michelle Carlesso. "Da borduna às redes sociais : uma mostra do cotidiano Mẽbêngôkre Mẽtyktire." Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, 2014. http://ri.ufmt.br/handle/1/429.
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Este trabalho resulta de um estudo do grupo Mẽbêngôkre Mẽtyktire (Kayapó) realizado na aldeia Piaraçú, Terra Indígena Capoto/Jarina, norte do Estado de Mato Grosso, centro-oeste do Brasil. O foco de análise é o cotidiano vivido naquela comunidade indígena, levando em conta a dinâmica de suas relações interpessoais regulares e constantes com as comunidades e culturas indígenas e não-indígenas de seu entorno próximo e distante e a socialidade subjacente no "estar-junto". As interações sociais são contextualizadas em uma perspectiva pós-moderna a partir da noção proposta por Maffesoli de “socialidade” e “tribalismo”, de teatralidade da vida social por Erving Goffman e de “proxêmica” por Edward Hall, assim como a de intercâmbio e misturas culturais por Canclini, Lupo e Gruzinski. Os dados empíricos desta pesquisa de caráter etnográfico foram coletados através de observações sistemáticas e assistemáticas, realizadas no período entre maio e dezembro de 2013, onde as fotografias e falas obtidas em entrevistas compõem uma “mostração” dos fenômenos sociais como são. O grupo em questão apresenta-se em sua complexidade e singularidade, onde sua concepção sociocosmológica orienta as relações com o outro, ao mesmo tempo em que absorve e reconverte uma série de práticas sociais e materiais.
This work results from a study of the group Mẽbêngôkre Mẽtyktire (Kayapó) in the village Piaraçú, on Indian Land Capoto / Jarina, north of Mato Grosso, central-western Brazil. The focus of analysis is the quotidian lived in that indigenous community, taking into account the dynamics of their regular and constant interpersonal relationships with communities and indigenous and non-indigenous cultures of their surroundings near and far and the underlying sociality in the "being-together". The social interactions are contextualized in a postmodern perspective from the notion proposed by Maffesoli of "sociality" and "tribalism", the theatricality of social life by Erving Goffman and "proxemics" by Edward Hall, as well as cultural exchanges and mixtures by Canclini, Lupo and Gruzinski. The empirical data for this research were collected through ethnographic systematic and unsystematic observations, conducted between May and December 2013, where photos and speeches obtained in individual interviews make up a "show" of the social phenomena as they are. The group in question is presented in its complexity and uniqueness, where your socio cosmological conception guiding the relations with the other while absorbing and reconverts several social and material practices.
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Laughead, Amy Louise. "Illumination Level as an Influence Factor on Proxemic Behavior." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35660.
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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 conditions on the personal space requirements within the behavioral setting of waiting/reception areas. Both a quantitative approach and qualitative approach were taken with this investigation.
To control for various cultural, social, environmental and situational variables as possible, illuminated scale-models were constructed of three waiting/reception area scenarios and a homogenous sample of Americans participated in the study. Subjects interacted with these models by placing scale-figures within them, and answered a series of both quantitative and open-ended questions. Proxemic recordings of scale-figure placements were performed and statistically analyzed.
The quantitative results showed that under general ambient bright and dim lighting conditions, there were no significant differences in personal space requirements in the waiting/receptions area behavioral setting. Thus, lighting does not appear to be a determining factor in achieving adequate personal space. The qualitative analysis agreed with these results, noting other factors as being more important, such as, the proximity to others, presence of tables (assuming they hold reading materials), and a view of the entire space. This phenomenon means ambient illumination level does not play a large role in determining proxemic distances between individuals in waiting area settings.Master of Science
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Hobeika, Lise. "Interplay between multisensory integration and social interaction in auditory space : towards an integrative neuroscience approach of proxemics." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCB116.
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L'homme ne perçoit pas l'espace de manière homogène : le cerveau code l'espace proche du corps différemment de l'espace lointain. Cette distinction joue un rôle primordial notre comportement social : l'espace proche du corps, appelé espace péripersonnel (EPP), serait une zone de protection du corps, où la présence d'un individu est perçue comme une menace. L'EPP a été initialement décrit par la psychologie sociale et l'anthropologie, comme un facteur de la communication humaine. L'EPP a été plus tard décrit chez le singe par des études de neurophysiologie comme un espace codé par des neurones multisensoriels. Ces neurones déchargent uniquement en réponse à des évènements sensoriels situés à une distance limitée du corps du singe (qu'ils soient tactiles, visuels ou auditifs). L'ensemble de ces neurones multisensoriels code ainsi l'EPP tout autour du corps. Ce codage exclusif de l'EPP est crucial pour interagir avec le monde extérieur, car c'est dans cet espace que sont réalisées les actions visant à protéger le corps ou visant à atteindre des objets autour de soi. Le codage mutlisensoriel de l'EPP pendant des interactions sociales est à ce jour peu étudié. Dans ce travail de recherche, nous avons réalisé plusieurs études en vu d'identifier des facteurs contribuant à la perméabilité de l'EPP et ses aspects adaptatifs. Une première étude a examiné les frontières latérales de l'EPP chez des individus seuls, en mesurant l'interaction d'une source sonore dynamique s'approchant du corps avec le temps de détection de stimulations tactiles. Cette étude a montré des différences dans la taille de l'EPP entre les deux hémi-espaces, qui seraient liées à la latéralité manuelle. Une seconde étude a exploré les modulations de l'EPP dans des contextes sociaux. Elle a montré que l'EPP est modifié lorsque des individus réalisent une tâche en collaboration. La troisième étude est une recherche méthodologique qui vise à dépasser les limitations des paradigmes comportementaux utilisés actuellement pour mesurer l'EPP. Elle propose de nouvelles pistes pour évaluer comment les stimuli approchant le corps sont intégrés en fonction de leur distance et du contexte multisensoriel dans lequel ils sont traités. L'ensemble de ces travaux montre l'intérêt d'étudier l'intégration multisensorielle autour du corps dans l'espace 3D pour comprendre pleinement l'EPP, et les impacts potentiels de facteurs sociaux sur les processus multisensoriels de bas-niveaux. De plus, ces études soulignent l'importance pour les neurosciences sociales de développer des protocoles expérimentaux réellement sociaux, à plusieurs participantsThe space near the body, called peripersonal space (PPS), was originally studied in social psychology and anthropology as an important factor in interpersonal communication. It was later described by neurophysiological studies in monkeys as a space mapped with multisensory neurons. Those neurons discharge only when events are occurring near the body (be it tactile, visual or audio information), delineating the space that people consider as belonging to them. The human brain also codes events that are near the body differently from those that are farther away. This dedicated brain function is critical to interact satisfactorily with the external world, be it for defending oneself or to reach objects of interest. However, little is known about how this function is impacted by real social interactions. In this work, we have conducted several studies aiming at understanding the factors that contribute to the permeability and adaptive aspects of PPS. A first study examined lateral PPS for individuals in isolation, by measuring reaction time to tactile stimuli when an irrelevant sound is looming towards the body of the individual. It revealed an anisotropy of reaction time across hemispaces, that we could link to handedness. A second study explored the modulations of PPS in social contexts. It was found that minimal social instructions could influence the shape of peripersonal space, with a complex modification of behaviors in collaborative tasks that outreaches the handedness effect. The third study is a methodological investigation attempting to go beyond the limitations of the behavioral methods measuring PPS, and proposing a new direction to assess how stimuli coming towards the body are integrated according to their distance and the multisensory context in which they are processed. Taken together, our work emphasizes the importance of investigating multisensory integration in 3D space around the body to fully capture PPS mechanisms, and the potential impacts of social factors on low-level multisensory processes. Moreover, this research provides evidence that neurocognitive social investigations, in particular on space perception, benefit from going beyond the traditional isolated individual protocols towards actual live social interactive paradigms
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GORRINI, ANDREA. "Empirical studies and computational results of a proxemic - based model of pedestrian crowd dynamics." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/50254.
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The thesis work is organized in two main parts. The first includes a review of the social science framework about crowd dynamics and proxemics, and the methodological approach. The second part consists of several empirical studies. A summary of the contents is provided as follows. Starting from the pioneering study of Gustave Le Bon (1897), the social science contributions about crowds are reviewed in Chapter 2 (Contagion-Transformation Theory, Elaborated Social Identity Model, Emergent Norm Theory, Affiliative Approach). Chapter 3 presents the proxemic theory, with reference to the notion of personal space and the group proxemic behavior in static and motion situations. Chapter 4 presents the methodological approach, as composed of: in vivo observation, in vitro experiments and in silico simulations. Chapter 5 proposed the results achieved by means of two observations performed at the Campus of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) and the Vittorio Emanuele II gallery (Milan, Italy). Chapter 6 presents two experiments focused on the combined impact of turning path and grouping on pedestrian crowd dynamics and the size of pedestrian personal space. Chapter 7 presents a simulation campaign performed by using the platform MAKKSim. The results achieved have been compared with the collected empirical data for sake of model validation. The thesis ends with final remarks about the achieved results and future works towards the improvement of the computational model of MAKKSim.
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Poole, S. E. "A consideration of gender roles and relations in the Aegean Bronze Age interpreted from gestures and proxemics in art." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2011. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1208637/.
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This research examines whether depictions of males have been presented differently from those of females in Bronze Age Aegean art of the 2nd millennium BC, and if so, whether conclusions may be drawn from this about the social roles and relations between these genders in practice. Detailed observations are made of the way physical gestures are portrayed, and how human bodies are positioned in space and in relation to others, to try and gain insights on two levels. By drawing on ethological models bodily behaviour that is arguably innate, or at least nearly universal, has been identified, whereas a structuraliconographic methodology has revealed postures and gestures which seem more specific to these individual societies. The primary material examined includes a comprehensive sample of frescoes on which the human figure is portrayed; seal-stones, finger-rings, and impressions made from these, which show more than one human figure; and an appropriate selection of the most familiar and best preserved three-dimensional artefacts on which the human form is depicted. A secondary sample comprises a number of images that include some figurines and a few glyptics showing single figures seated, where kinds of seating are central to the analysis. The conclusion reached is that in many respects distinct differences suggest male/female dichotomies. These include active versus passive body language; males engaged in a wide range of activities contrasted with females involved in only a few; and male bodies as expansive versus females’ as constrained. It is postulated that these suggest an overall pattern of male dominance. There are, however, exceptions to these trends. These can be identified, for example, in processions. A number of images also suggest that some females may have been placed at least temporarily in limited roles imbued with prestige. Patterns of varying status can also be seen between individuals in single-gender groupings.
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Rudd, Betty. "Cross-cultural inter-personal space in assumed counselling relationships with same and opposite sex pairs, and counsellors' perspectives on proxemics." Thesis, City University London, 2000. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/8213/.
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Regardingt he main title of this project, the term "inter-personal" refers to the inter-active relationship between people, as in: a psychotherapeutic counselling encounter. Deliberations with relatives, friends and colleagues who disclosed that they had been through similar situations as my own concerning 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 dimension I therefore explore in the current research is the non-verbal one of distance. Within the scope of this project, human relating is investigated while focusing on proxernics. When we know what emotion we are experiencing at a moment in time, we relate with ourselves on an intrapersonal level, which has various other dimensions. I have experienced this while listening to my own self. When we engage in a dialogue with another human being, we relate on an inter-personal level, which also has other dimensions. I have experienced this myself while communicating with another person. When we experience being an integral part of what we experience as our world, we transcend our immediate situation and sense a connection to a greater whole; we relate on a transpersonal level. Personally, I have experienced this, for example: while walking with my family. I mention the three different types of relating here (intra, inter and trans-personal relating) in order to put this research project on inter-personal relating regarding proxemics, into a certain perspective. In this work I have endeavoured to entwine three threads from my life: Firstly, the thread of my professional experiences with the second thread of my studies and the final thread of my teaching work, in the hope of offering a key to psychological therapists for facilitating the unlocking of some positive potential in their clients. I aspire to interface research with practical ways of puffing theory into practice, without preaching a particular psychotherapeutic model. I have yearned to produce a project like this for over a decade, and I am thrilled to be doing it. Many aspects of my life have facilitated the process of this work. Firstly, my cultural transplant from the Mediterranean to England when I was five years old. This experience gave me a sense of having a front row seat in the new culture and perhaps lay the foundation for my search concerning the understanding of cultural influences. Also, when I entered junior school after my seventh birthday, a teacher read to my class for ten minutes near the end of each school day, and this sparked my enthusiasm for reading. Before the age of twelve I went to what was purported to be the first comprehensive school built in London. That school's library seemed well-stocked and I read every book on psychology that I could find, during my teen years. This is how my love for psychology was born. When I left school, I trained to act professionally, later I qualified to be a teacher and later still I studied to be a mime artist. A passion for understanding the meaning of non-verbal communication has thrived within me for thirty years. After acting professionally for some years I ran a theatre school in London. It was there that my practical therapeutic work unwittingly started, initially with children, when the local Social Services department paid for the "difficult" children in their care, to attend my drama school. I remember with warmth, not only the dedicated hard work which thrived there, but also the fun which my students and I had. Yet my heart and mind yearned towards training to be a psychologist. So I did, when the opportunity came, taking my first psychology degree as a mature student with the Open University. The eventual combination of post-graduate studies, clinical work, experience within the performing arts, teaching and the passion within me, provided me with the necessary equipment for the present project. Now that I have gleaned a certain amount of knowledge for interfacing my leaming of psychology, dramatic art and teaching, I have undertaken to produce this work. The text that follows is a research project investigating distance within counselling relationships. It is not only an empirical exploration of factors within purported counselling relationships which may influence proxemics, between counsellors and their clients, but also a qualitative exploration. The chief aims of the research are seven-fold: Firstly, to offer a ground-work of data on proxemics regarding counselling relationships with English speaking adult natives from England, Gibraltar and the USA, from which further research may grow from. Secondly, to add to the area of understanding non-verbal communication (NVC) between individuals who make up the members of counselling dyads. Thirdly, to add to the field of literature on NVC, the specific dimension of proxemics, an aspect which has been under represented. Fourthly, to develop ideas on facilitating awareness in NVC, especially proxernics for people involved with counselling. Fifthly, to ascertain areas of awareness concerning NVC with regard to at least proxemics, in psychological counselling practitioners. Sixthly, to offer a few new ideas to not only psychological counsellors but also perhaps individuals that teach who may need to use counselling skills in order to support their work. These new ideas take the form of balancing proximity with the factors of culture, familiarity and gender (see study 1 in the main body of the text); and whatever themes emerge (see study 2 in the main body of the text). Finally, I aspire to bring more fun and heart to join the head of the body of my profession. Indeed, during the first international conference on counselling psychology in 1997, the chair of the division, Professor Mary Wafts, during her closing address, said that what the British Psychological Society's (BPS) Division of Counselling Psychology needed was more fun and heart to join the head. It is important to note that although this research spotlights proxemics, the investigation initially deliberates on the wider aspect of non-verbal communication, due to not only the fact that proxernics is part of NVC, but also because of the meagre amount of investigations found which mainly focus on proxemics. This research involved visiting three English speaking countries and using a tape measure to see how far away purported clients chose to sit from me, the assumed counsellor; as well as interviewing individuals who practise counselling in order to ascertain their awareness regarding proxernics. In this way, the research focuses on proxernics. Within this work, the term "it" or "one" is used when referring to an objective reality, such as external criteria used as a yardstick. For instance, the measurement in inches (which would be constant, who-ever measures the same place). The term "we" or "our" is used when there is a shared understanding between people, such as the language used between members of a counselling dyad (unless an interpreter is used). And the term "I" or "my" is used when I deliberate on my personal experience. Wilber (1998) has a similar usage of the terms "it", "we" and "I". My experience with working on this project is multi-faceted. It has been both very challenging and extremely rewarding. At times I have cried over this project: for instance when my computer crashed so my doctorate work in it, vanished. At other times I have had fun and laughter: for instance while sifting and deliberating on the research, during a meal, with my counselling psychologist friend Anne. It is not the intention of this work to investigate the meanings behind the words "counsellor", "psycho-therapist", "psychological practitioner"," counselling psychological and "psychological counsellor"; although these words are used interchangeably throughout the text. The past, present and future tenses are used to illustrate: a situation that has happened in the past such as a clinical experience (past tense); a situation which is current such as a piece of literature (present tense) or a situation which may be possible (future tense).
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Vasconcelos, Simone GonÃalves. "ComunicaÃÃo entre mÃe-filho em alojamento conjunto à luz dos fatores proxÃmicos." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2006. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=343.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorProxemia representa neologismo para designar o conjunto das observaÃÃes e teorias referentes ao uso que o homem faz do seu espaÃo, constituindo-se uma modalidade de comunicaÃÃo nÃo-verbal. A comunicaÃÃo proxÃmica estuda o significado social do espaÃo, ou seja, estuda como o homem estrutura inconscientemente o prÃprio espaÃo. Neste estudo aborda-se a comunicaÃÃo proxÃmica entre mÃe-filho em alojamento conjunto. Faz-se um julgamento comparativo entre binÃmios com sorologia negativa e positiva para o HIV. Como objetivo geral, menciona-se analisar as interaÃÃes entre mÃe-filho durante a troca de fraldas do bebà em alojamento conjunto, à luz dos fatores proxÃmicos. Desenvolveu-se um estudo exploratÃrio, descritivo e quantitativo entre dezembro de 2005 e fevereiro de 2006 em unidade de alojamento conjunto de uma Maternidade pÃblica de Fortaleza-CE, utilizando-se filmagens para avaliar a comunicaÃÃo. As filmagens foram realizadas em sala do alojamento conjunto, durante as primeiras 48 horas de vida do recÃm-nascido, onde se executa a antropometria, a troca de fraldas, o banho e a vacinaÃÃo dos recÃm-nascidos. A populaÃÃo constituiu-se de uma amostra de conveniÃncia de um grupo de binÃmio (G1 n=5), no qual a mÃe nÃo apresenta sorologia positiva para o HIV, e um segundo grupo (G2 n=3) em que a mÃe tinha conhecimento da sorologia positiva para o HIV, antes do parto. Pelas filmagens registraram-se as cenas do momento da troca de fraldas dos bebÃs. Estas foram analisadas por juizes, obedecendo-se o referencial teÃrico de Hall (1986) sobre a comunicaÃÃo proxÃmica. à medida que se observou repetiÃÃo dos componentes da comunicaÃÃo proxÃmica, elas foram finalizadas. Para anÃlise utilizou-se um roteiro previamente elaborado, que constava de fatores proxÃmicos: tom de voz, distÃncia, comportamento de contato e contato visual. De acordo com os dados, encontrou-se associaÃÃo estatÃstica nos fatores cÃdigo visual e tom de voz. Houve concordÃncia absoluta entre os juÃzes no fator postura. Entretanto, dados relativos (%) permitem inferir algumas suposiÃÃes, como as seguintes: a situaÃÃo de troca de fraldas nÃo foi o momento em que as mÃes demonstraram carinho com seus filhos; houve a presenÃa de um nÃmero elevado de interaÃÃes em eixo lateral; o olhar direcionado ao interlocutor manteve margem prÃxima do desviado; a maioria das interaÃÃes encontradas com o eixo sociopeto pode refletir na necessidade de a mÃe ficar prÃxima do filho para a troca e a presenÃa do silÃncio no procedimento. Estudos poderÃo ser desenvolvidos com vistas a ampliar o processo de avaliaÃÃo da comunicaÃÃo nas fases iniciais da vida, pois o conhecimento do processo comunicativo entre mÃe e filho pode auxiliar no julgamento da validade da implementaÃÃo de esforÃos para tornÃ-la o mais saudÃvel possÃvel desde as primeiras horas pÃs-parto, especialmente em pacientes com HIV/aids, os quais tÃm uma histÃria de vida peculiar, marcada por episÃdios dolorosos diante dos infortÃnios da doenÃa e das incertezas quanto ao seu prognÃstico.
Proxemics is a neologism which designates the set of observations and theories relating to the use man makes of his space, comprising a form of non-verbal communication. Proxemic communication studies the social meaning of space, that is, it studies how man unconsciously structures his own space. In this research, proxemic communication between mother and child in shared accommodation is approached. A comparative judgment is made between binomes with negative and positive blood test results for HIV, the general objective being analysis of mother-child interactions during diaper-changing of babies in shared accommodation, in the light of proxemic factors. A descriptive and quantitative exploratory study was undertaken, between December 2005 and February 2006, in a shared accommodation unit of a public maternity hospital in Fortaleza, CearÃ, Brazil, using video footage to evaluate communication. Filming was performed in shared accommodation rooms, during the first 48 hours of life of neonates, in which anthropometrics, diaper-changing, bathing and vaccination of newborns take place. The population comprised a convenient sample of a binome group (G1; n=5), in which the mother does not test positively for HIV and a second group (G2, n=3) in which the mother was aware of positive blood test result for HIV, prior to childbirth. Footage filmed at time of diaper changes was analyzed by judges, in compliance with the theoretical benchmark of Hall (1986) regarding proxemic communication and scenes were finalized when repetition of proxemic communication components was observed. For analysis, a previously-prepared script was used, noting proxemic factors: tone of voice, distance, contact behavior and visual contact. According to the data, a statistical difference was generated for visual code and tone of voice factors. There was absolute concordance amongst judges for the posture factor. Nevertheless, relative data (%) permit inference of certain assumptions, notably: the âdiaper-changeâ situation was not the moment in which mothers demonstrated affection for their children; the presence of a high number of interactions on a lateral axis; gaze directed to interlocutor maintained a margin close to averted; most interactions found with sociopetal axis may reflect need for mother to remain close to child for the change and the need for silence during procedure. Studies may be undertaken with a view to expanding the process of evaluation of communication in initial phases of life, as knowledge of the communicative process between mother and child may assist in judgment of validity of implementation of efforts to make it as healthy as possible from the first hours postpartum, especially as patients with HIV/AIDS have a particular life story, marked by painful episodes in view of the diseaseâs symptoms and the uncertainty regarding prognosis.
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Erhardsson, Jennie, and Sofia Gustafsson. "Fastighetsmäklares icke-verbala kommunikation." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-2829.
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Background: During a house demonstration a real estate agent have the chance to make new contacts which is of big importance to spread the word about the agency and keep up with the competition. If the realtor makes a good impression on the customers, it increases the chance for making the customers return to the same realtor when time comes to sell their own house. The interpretation of this non-verbal communication has been shown to have a fundamental effect on the participant’s perception of the encounter. This makes the study aim regards investigating which non-verbal signals a real estate agent express.
Purpose: This study has a two-parted purpose whereas the first part intends to point out similarities and differences in a realtor’s non-verbal communication. The other part aim to create an understanding for the consequences a real estate agent’s non-verbal communication can lead to.
Theory: To fulfil the purpose, theories about non-verbal communication were chosen which brings the expressions kinesics, proxemics, physical appearance and paralanguage into use.
Research method: As an empirical research method observations were used to study the real estate agents non-verbal communication. Four educated and authorised realtors were chosen to be observed at different house demonstrations. The focus was set on the realtors interactions with the customers.
Conclusion: Results from the observations point out that there are both similarities and differences in a realtor’s non-verbal communication. Depending on how this communication takes place, which can differ between realtors, different consequences can be pointed out in the interaction with the customers.
Keywords: Non-verbal communication, Real estate agent, House demonstrations, Kinesics, Proxemics, Paralanguage
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Wagenknecht, Ronja. "Seeing Beyond Words : Animals teach us about our natural ability to lead." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-74635.
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Nonverbal communication in leadership is a phenomenon which is interesting to get a greater understanding of. Animals only communicate nonverbally and have strong leadership behaviours. Therefore, this study aim is to find out in what way nonverbal communication in leaders is still connected to animal roots and what the implications for modern life are. This study tries to give an overview of the phenomenon with a theoretical approach. Different point of views of nonverbal communication and animal behaviour in leaders have been discussed. A theoretical approach was suitable because of the abundance of literature in the main fields of focus. Connecting the different studies with each other gave valuable insights into the phenomenon. Power, status, submission, territory, space, and mating behaviours are the most used categories associated with leadership behaviours in animal species. Human leadership behaviour consists of the same categories but furthermore, emotional intelligence is an integral part as well. Different postures, gestures, facial expressions as well as distances to each other gave a comprehensive overview of how leaders are naturally behaving. Deciphering the complex nonverbal communication and looking at them with aspects of communication in animals helped with showing the roots and the natural ability to lead. Further research, however, should be conducted to see how nonverbal communication influences complex group dynamics and the effect thereof. Implications for the natural instincts to lead are helpful with how leaders can further their communication skills and become more conscious of their nonverbal communication.
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Bell, Henry. "'The audience enjoyed the audience' : a practice-as-research based investigation into space, proxemics, embodiment and illocution in relation to young people's reception of Shakespeare." Thesis, University of Hull, 2015. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16292.
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This dissertation is the written component of a practice-as-research based investigation into the reception of Shakespeare’s writing by young people via performance-based methods. Participants in the research took part in a twofold process, firstly attending preparatory workshops utilising active storytelling and active Shakespeare approaches, before attending an abridged performance, which was performed in one of a number of in-the-round theatre spaces. The study explores the responses and behaviours of primary school aged children who attended Julius Caesar performed at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London and secondary school aged pupils who attended Romeo and Juliet at various locations in schools and a specifically constructed in-the-round auditorium in Hull and Scarborough in North Yorkshire, England. Firstly, this dissertation uses ideas stemming from Maurice Merleau Ponty’s existential phenomenology to describe the skills development of the participants in the preparatory workshops, before providing a wider phenomenological theoretical framework to justify and explain the practical deployment of aesthetic and architectural design choices in the research conducted. The spatial investigation is continued by applying Henri Lefebvre’s theories of space to explore how considerations of space can realign the position of Shakespeare’s writing within the hegemonies of the various youth cultures of which primary and secondary school age groups are a part. This framework is then used theoretically to analyse the theatre spaces in which research took place; the spatial dynamics of the audience and performance spaces found within theatre in-the-round are analysed using existing, contemporary audience reception theories alongside original research conducted with practitioners of this theatrical configuration. Finally, the treatment of illocutionary acts, both in the performances conducted as part of this dissertation, and in UK classrooms, by young people, are investigated via the concepts of J.L. Austin and John C. Searle’s Speech Act Theory, in order to provide a methodology appropriate for analysis of the linguistic behaviour of Shakespeare’s writing in performance.
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Osafo-Acquah, Aaron. "The Role of Teacher-Child Verbal and Nonverbal Prompts in Kindergarten Classrooms in Ghana." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6920.
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While previous studies have examined the educational system in Ghana, there seemed to be very little or no studies that had explored participation and engagement through teacher-child interactions in early childhood education in Ghanaian classrooms (Twum-Danso, 2013). The purpose of this video-based multiple case studies qualitative study of three Kindergarten classrooms in Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana was to identify verbal and nonverbal prompts that related to children’s participation in Ghanaian Kindergarten classroom settings. The data for the study were secondary, having been collected by a team of researchers for the New Civics Grant Program in an initial study to find apprenticeship and civic themes in Ghanaian Kindergarten classrooms. The design for the study was a qualitative video analysis of three early childhood centers in Cape Coast in the Central Region of Ghana using video cameras to capture classroom interactions to be able to answer the questions: What is the nature of Ghanaian Kindergarten teachers’ verbal and non-verbal prompts that relate to children’s participation during the instructional process? In what ways do children in Ghanaian Kindergartens participate during the instructional process?
I applied the sociocultural perspective of Rogoff’s (1990, 1993, 2003) three foci of analysis that provided a useful conceptual tool for analyzing research with young children (Robbin, 2007). It highlights how children’s thinking is integrated with and constituted by contexts, collaboration, and signs and cultural tools (p. 48). The findings indicated that Ghanaian Kindergarten teachers’ verbal and nonverbal prompts that related to children’s participation during the instructional process were the use of questions, appreciation, gestures etc. The findings also showed that the ways in which Ghanaian Kindergarten children participated during the instructional process were verbal/oral responses, doing exercises and activities, and also using gestures. It was also found that pedagogical attitudes such as pedagogical sensitivity and understanding, discussion and conversation, and rules and management related to children’s participation during the instructional process.
Ghanaian specific culturally relevant ways and practices of interactions between teachers and children were observed in the participant schools. Teachers used silence to convey messages of disapproval to the children, used eyeing to send messages of disapproval, and also used punishments and rewards to either encourage good behavior or stop bad behavior. Singing and dancing, building classroom community, and value on interpersonal connections were also found to be Ghanaian specific culturally relevant ways of interactions that teachers applied to the classroom interactions. All the teachers in the participant schools showed various forms of appreciation to the children as a way of reinforcing their behaviors and also for praise and redirection of attention.
From the findings of the study, the following recommendations are made:
1. Pre service teacher preparation, and teacher education in general should be reorganized so that the contexts in which the teachers operate will then be guided by contextually relevant pedagogy (Young, 2010). Ghana needs a type of pedagogy that will empower teachers intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by using cultural referents to impart knowledge, skills, and attitudes (p. 248).
2. The provision of adequate teaching and learning materials would enable teachers engage children more on exercises and activities during the instructional process. The materials would help teachers to provide enough activities to engage the children’s attention during the instructional process.
3. Ghanaian specific culturally relevant ways of interactions between teachers and children must be taught as a course at the University of Cape Coast to help in the preparation of pre-service teachers.
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Fekete, Emily. "SIGNS IN SPACE: AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AS SPATIAL LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL WORLDVIEW." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1279060612.
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Ведмидера, К. С. "Сприйняття та вербалізація невербальних кодів простору, часу та мовчання у різних національно-культурних середовищах." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2020. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/77502.
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Комунікація може відбуватися як між представниками одного лінгвокультурного середовища, так і різних. Комуніканти кодують та декодують повідомлення, зважаючи на їхнє етнокультурне походження та очікування. Як і мова, невербальна комунікація використовується для вираження значення, але вона є особливо важливою у виявленні почуттів та ставлень, особливо до осіб, з якими спілкуються. Невербальні засоби кроскультурної комунікації як проксеміка, хронеміка та мовчання мають чіткі національні ознаки.Коммуникация может происходить как между представителями одного лингвокультурного среды, так и разных. Коммуниканты кодируют и декодируют сообщение, учитывая их этнокультурное происхождения и ожидания. Как и язык, невербальная коммуникация используется для выражения значения, но она особенно важна в выявлении чувств и отношений, особенно к лицам, с которыми общаются. Невербальные средства кросс коммуникации как проксемика, хронемика и молчание имеют четкие национальные признаки.
Communication can take place both between representatives of one linguistic and cultural environment, and different. Communicators encode and decode messages based on their ethnocultural background and expectations. Like language, nonverbal communication is used to express meaning, but it is especially important in identifying feelings and attitudes, especially toward those with whom one communicates. Non-verbal means of cross-cultural communication such as proxemics, chronemics, and silence have clear national characteristics.
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Homewood, Sarah. "A Pound of Flesh But No Jot of Blood: Maintaining relationships with devices as they migrate onto and into our bodies." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22775.
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Despite a strong commercial trend towards wearable technology, this thesis considers the distal devices that have played an important role in our lives for over twenty years. Suggesting that the distance we have had between our bodies and our devices has given us the space to form meaningful relationships; the research explores how these relationships change when our devices migrate onto and into our bodies in the form of wearable technologies. The methodology of performative scenarios is developed to examine examples of relationships between people and their devices. Using examples of technologies that live with us now to inform the design of future technological developments reflects a post-phenomenological perspective calling for a materially oriented design approach. This thesis will explore this approach through focusing on the question; what would we lose if our distal devices became wearable devices? Ideations aiming to prevent any loss caused by the transition of devices from distal to wearable will provide examples of post-phenomenological wearable technology that not only maintains our relationships with our devices, but also helps our relationships to grow.
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Дробот, Ольга Вячеславівна, and Olga Drobot. "Предметний аналіз поняття «соціальне дистанціювання» в різних суспільних та наукових контекстах." Thesis, Національний авіаційний університет, 2020. https://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/45462.
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З метою теоретичного аналізу поняття «соціальне дистанціювання» було проаналізовано наукові контексти його вживання: медико-епідеміологічний, соціологічний, соціально-психологічний та прикладний (проксемічний). З’ясовано, що дане поняття розглядається в таких аспектах як: соціальний атитюд; психосоціальна детермінанта стресів; причина зниження довіри.For the purpose of theoretical analysis of the concept of "social distancing" the scientific contexts of its use were analyzed: medical-epidemiological, sociological, socio-psychological and applied (proxemic). It was found that this concept is considered in such aspects as: social attitude; psychosocial determinant of stress; the reason for the decline in confidence.
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Dahmani, Salim. "Analyse d'interactions didactiques en école coranique." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030208.
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Cette thèse porte sur les modalités de transmission du savoir en école coranique. Elle prend en charge l’étude du processus intéractionnel entre le Cheikh et le Taleb. Nous commençons par l’étude de l’évolution de l’action didactique entamée durant les premiers siècles de l’Islam et évoquons l’avènement des textes fondateurs de cette religion, le développement des sciences religieuses ainsi que l’étude des expériences fondatrices de l’éducation et de l’enseignement musulmans. Nous faisons, par la suite, appel aux différentes approches et concepts liés au processus de communication et opérons à l’analyse intéractionnelle de corpus audio-visuels de cours dans nos madrasa-échantillons. Nous ciblons, par cette analyse, le protocole métacommunicatif dans ses aspects non-verbaux et dans sa relation avec le plan proxémique. Nous formulons l’hypothèse que ce système régule l’interaction didactique et considérons que le mode de transmission se présente comme un système sous forme de boucles didactiques Cheikh/Taleb, Taleb/Taleb qui est à la base de la chaîne de transmission. L’intérêt de notre investigation est de mettre l’accent sur le rôle que peuvent avoir des éléments de nature proxémique et des comportements non-verbaux dans la régulation de la communication lors d’un cours. Dans notre conclusion, nous considérons qu’une bonne gestion de ces régulateurs favorise la transmission du savoir et minimise, pour l’enseignant, les risques de déplanification du coursThis thesis is based on the particularity of the transmission of knowledge in the coranic school. It studies the interactional process between the Cheikh and the Taleb.We begin by studying the evolution of the didactic action started during the first islamic centuries and we evoke the advent of the founder texts in this religion,the development of the religious sciences as soon as the study of experiences that found the muslim education and teaching. Afterwards, we appeal to the different approachs and concepts linked to the process of communication and we study the interactional analysis of the audiovisual corpus of the courses in our Madrasa samples.We target by this analysis the metacommunicative protocol in its non-verbal aspects and its relation with the proximate plan.We formulate the hypothesis which says that this system regulate the didactic interaction and we consider that the way of transmission appears as a system of didactic buckles between Cheikh /Taleb,Taleb/Taleb which is the base of this chain. The interest of our investigation is to put the focus on the role which can have the elements of proximate nature,and non- verbal behaviour in the regulation of the communication in the moment of a course. In our conclusion, we consider that a good management of this regulators favours the transmission of knowledge and reduce, for the teacher the riske of the suppression of the plan of the courses
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Hu, Shen. "Esquisse d’une théorie de l’encastrement thermo-économique du social : d’une enquête empirique sur la consommation d’alcool des Han à un renouveau épistémologique de la socio-anthropologie." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA080106.
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Ce travail de thèse repose sur une enquête commanditée par un fabricant de cognac. Ce dernier, lourdement frappé par la compagne anti-corruption qu’ont lancée les dirigeants chinois fin 2012, souhaiterait développer un cognac dédié au marché sinophone (chinois, singapourien et taïwanais) de la boîte de nuit et du bar. Adoptant une approche soumettant la problématique marketing à la méthode ethnographique, nous avons d’abord réalisé une ethnographie de la consommation d’alcool des jeunes sinophones en boîte de nuit et au bar. Cette enquête a été ensuite complétée par une autre portant sur la consommation d’alcool des Chinois en général. La méthode inductive que nous avons employée a permis de faire de ces recherches ethnographiques un générateur de questionnements auxquelles nous ne nous étions pas attendus. Ainsi, outre la partie descriptive consistant à restituer les différents modes de consommation d’alcool que nous avons observés, cette thèse est aussi composée d’une autre partie théorique. A partir des questions soulevées par la première partie descriptive, cette partie théorique a pour objectif d’esquisser, à contre-courant de la mouvance sociologiste qui caractérise l’anthropologie d’après-guerre, une théorie de l’encastrement « économique » du « social ». Dans la perspective de rompre à la fois avec les excès évolutionnistes et anti-évolutionnistes de l’histoire anthropologique, cette thèse consiste entre autres en une refonte de la théorie monétaire, laquelle aurait pour fonction de rendre compte de l’actuelle synergie géopolitique entre la Chine monopartiste et l’Occident pluripartisteThis work is based on an investigation commissioned by a cognac manufacturer. Heavily hit by the anti-corruption campaign launched by Chinese top leaders at the end of 2012, this manufacturer was seeking to develop a cognac product dedicated to the Sinophone (Chinese, Singaporean and Taiwanese) market of nightclubs and bars. Using an approach that subjects the marketing problem to the ethnographic method, we first performed an ethnography of the alcohol consumption of young Sinophone people in nightclubs and bars. This investigation was then supplemented by another one on the consumption of alcohol by the Chinese in general. The inductive method which we have employed has allowed us to use these ethnographic materials as a generator of research questions which we had not expected. Thus, apart from the descriptive part that synthesises the different modes of alcohol consumption that we have observed, this thesis is also composed of another theoretical part. On the basis of the questions raised by the first descriptive part, this theoretical part aims at sketching a theory of the “economic” embedding of the “social”, which runs counter to the sociologist trends characterising the postwar anthropology. In order to break with both the evolutionist and anti-evolutionist excesses of anthropological history, this thesis consists, among other things, in a revision of the monetary theory, the function of which would be to account for the geopolitical synergy between the “one-party China” and the “multi-party West” at present
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López, Ruano Evaristo. "Espai, treball i relacions socials en un grup de treballadors metal•lúrgics de torn especial. Interacció simbòlica en marcs marginals." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/84155.
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La investigació té com a escenari els tallers de l'empresa de Manlleu (Barcelona) en què vaig treballar durant més d'una dècada. És un centre de treball d'una empresa multinacional amb un epicentre situat a Barcelona, però amb seu central als Estats Units. El tema central de la tesi són les relacions humanes que es produeixen dins d'una fàbrica de cables, en particular en espais considerats, d'entrada, com secundaris o marginals, com els vestidors o l'espai que se situa al voltant de màquines expenedores de cafè o begudes, allà on es produeixen les micro-activitats que són els fonaments de la construcció de la realitat social quotidiana. La perspectiva que adopta aquest estudi, per tant, és la pròpia de la tradició microsociològica de la qual Erving Goffman seria l'autor més significatiu i conegut. Els objectius del treball realitzat són deliberadament modestos. Es parla d'obrers, de l'empresa on treballen, l'espai de la fàbrica on desenvolupen la seva activitat i de l'organització de la qual formen part. Això implica que la realitat que es descriu i analitza és la pròpia d'allò que encara convindria cridar la classe obrera, de les dinàmiques consubstancials a una estructura productiva i d'un organigrama empresarial dedicat a la indústria metal•lúrgica.Space, work and social relationships in a group of metalworkers’ special shift. Symbolic interaction in marginal frameworks. The research is staged in the workshops of a company in Manlleu (Barcelona) where I worked for over a decade. It is a workplace of a multinational company with an epicentre located in Barcelona, but with headquarters in the United States. The central themes of the thesis are the human relationships that occur within a cable factory, particularly in areas considered, in principle, as secondary or marginal, as the locker room or the space that is around coffee or drink machines, where occurs those micro-activities that are the foundations of the social construction of everyday reality. The approach adopted by this study, therefore, is typical of the traditional microsociology which Erving Goffman would be the most significant and known author. The objectives of the work are deliberately modest. It talks about workers, the company where they work, the factory space where they operate and the organization of which they are part. This implies that the reality here described and analyzed is the one about the "working class", the consubstantial dynamics to a production structure and a business organization dedicated to the metallurgical industry.
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Ferreira, Waléria de Melo. "Os gestos na interação de crianças ouvintes e surdas: as possibilidades de um contexto bilíngue." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2010. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/6501.
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This research regards an observational, qualitative study, which involves 08 (eight) hearing children and 03 (three) deaf children, aged between 7;7 and 11;10, in spontaneous daily interactions within a 3rd year Elementary School classroom in an inclusive private school, in Arapiraca, Alagoas. Our main goal is to identify the strategies adopted by hearing children for effective communication between them and the deaf. The corpus consists basically of 08 (eight) video recordings, each including 08 (eight) 30 minute sessions, from which we selected 09 (nine) episodes for analysis. We based our research on Kinesics, Proxemics and Tacesics, as well as on some studies on gesture in the acquisition and development of oral language and in the acquisition of sign language, based on Interactional Linguistics. Our thesis is that children have the ability to adapt linguistically to their interlocutors and our main hypothesis is that when interacting with deaf children, hearing children produce gestural speech that allow them to confirm, deny, ask, describe, narrate, explain, etc. and they are developing a communicative competence in a second language Brazilian Sign Language - to the point of being able to switch between the oral and sign language in an attempt to adapt their speech to the deaf children. Our analyses confirm our thesis that the children observed have the ability to adapt linguistically to their interlocutors, and show that sign language development occurs on a gesture-to-sign continuum, where the gestures socially learned and shared by both hearing and deaf children, enable the construction of meaning and, therefore, the achievement of communication between them.
Esta pesquisa é de natureza observacional, qualitativa, e envolve 08 (oito) crianças ouvintes e 03 (três) surdas, com idades entre 7;7 e 11;10, em situações de interação rotineiras na sala de aula do 3º Ano do Ensino Fundamental, de uma escola inclusiva da rede particular, na cidade de Arapiraca, AL, buscando identificar as estratégias adotadas pelas crianças ouvintes para efetivação da comunicação entre elas e as crianças surdas. O corpus consiste, basicamente, de gravações em vídeo, totalizando 08 (oito) sessões de 30 (trinta) minutos cada, dentre as quais selecionamos 09 (nove) episódios para análise. Fundamentamos nossa investigação nos estudos sobre a cinésica, a proxêmica e a tacêsica, e em teorias, cuja abordagem linguística é interacionista, além de alguns estudos sobre o gesto na aquisição e desenvolvimento da linguagem oral e sobre a aquisição de língua de sinais. Defendemos a tese de que crianças têm a capacidade de se adaptarem linguisticamente aos seus interlocutores. Partimos da hipótese de que, na interação com crianças surdas, as crianças ouvintes produzem movimentos gestuais que lhes permitem, além de afirmar e negar, pedir, perguntar, descrever, narrar, explicar etc., desenvolver seus discursos gestuais através de retomadas, ao mesmo tempo em que estão desenvolvendo uma habilidade comunicativa em uma segunda língua a língua de sinais ao ponto de serem capazes de alternar entre a modalidade oral e a gestual, na tentativa de adaptar suas falas as das crianças surdas. Nossas análises confirmam nossa tese de que as crianças observadas têm a capacidade de se adaptarem linguisticamente aos seus interlocutores, e evidenciam que o percurso do gesto ao sinal se dá em um continuum, onde os gestos, socialmente apreendidos e compartilhados pelas crianças ouvintes e pelas crianças surdas, possibilitam a construção do sentido e, consequentemente, a concretização das interações entre elas.
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MANENTI, LORENZA ALESSANDRA. "Agent-based proxemic dynamics: crowd and groups simulation." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/42374.
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Considering the general overview on the Pedestrian Dynamics area, this thesis is focused in the area of pedestrian dynamics simulation, with the goal to study the phenomenon of groups as constitutive elements that compose a crowd, analyzing if their presence influences the dynamics of pedestrian flow and evaluating the impact of their contribution.
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Jin, Huiliang. "Proxemic interaction and migratable user interface : applied to smart city." Thesis, Ecully, Ecole centrale de Lyon, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014ECDL0027/document.
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L’informatique ubiquitaire est graduellement devenue une réalité, nous utilisons divers dispositifs pour travailler et s’amuser (l’ordinateur, le portable, le smartphone). Au-delà des dispositifs personnels, les citoyens obtiennent des informations par les écrans publics qui sont présents partout dans les villes: l’abribus, l’aéroport, le centre commercial, etc. Il semble que la vision de l’informatique ubiquitaire est plus proche, cependant, l’avenir décrit par Mark Weiser est encore loin: «les technologies les plus profondes sont celles qui disparaissent». Actuellement les appareils électroniques ne sont pas assez intelligents et bien intégrés dans le contexte d’une ville. La ville intelligente (smart city) est un concept émergent pour construire une ville utilisant les technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC). Ce concept propose d’améliorer la qualité de la vie et d’augmenter l’efficacité des activités dans une ville par les TIC. Il aussi met l’accent sur les savoir-faire des citoyens pour la construction des villes. La ville intelligente est en effet un système ubiquitaire large qui comprend différent systèmes (le système de gestion trafic, le système de transport public, le système de distribution de l’énergie, etc.). Les écrans publics construisent l’une des plus importants systèmes dans une ville. Cependant, ils ne sont utilisés que pour afficher de l’information, ils sont aveugles aux utilisateurs ainsi qu’à leurs dispositifs personnels. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons de construire des écrans publics intelligents basés sur l’interaction proxémique. L’interaction proxémique est inspirée par le terme venant de la psychologie «Proxémique». La Proxémique désigne les espaces virtuels autour des êtres humains pendant la communication. Les espaces sont différents selon la culture, les lieux où l’interaction se déroule. La Proxémique a été introduite à l’interaction homme machine par S. Greenberg en 2011 et il a créé le terme d’interaction proxémique. L’interaction proxémique étudie l’interaction en fonction de la relation spatiale entre les objets. Un écran proxémique peut connaître la distance, la position, l’identité et le mouvement de l’utilisateur. Ces dimensions proxémiques sont mesurées par l’écran comme les signaux de l’interaction implicite. Par ailleurs, il peut détecter les dispositifs mobiles des utilisateurs: il peut distribuer et échanger de l’information avec les dispositifs de l’environnement. Par rapport à un écran traditionnel, un écran proxémique offre des contenus plus personnalisés et ainsi répond aux besoins immédiats des utilisateurs. Ces avantages permettent à un écran public de bien s’adapter aux exigences de la ville intelligente. Notre objectif est d’étudier la façon de relever les défis d’un écran public dans une ville intelligente par l’interaction proxémique. Pour atteindre cet objectif, nous étudions les dimensions de l’interaction proxémique, et puis nous concevons un prototype d’écran proxémique grâce à différents capteurs: Kinect, Leapmotion et Webcam. Ce prototype supporte l’interaction implicite et explicite des utilisateurs pour fournir un contenu plus personnalisé aux utilisateurs, ainsi que des interactions naturelles. En outre, nous avons développé une boîte à outils pour la migration des données entre l’écran public et les appareils mobiles personnels. Avec cet outil, l’utilisateur peut télécharger des ressources à partir de l’écran, et l’écran deviendra un terminal pour recueillir les connaissances des citoyens pour la ville intelligente. Nous discutons les applications potentielles de ce prototype dans la ville intelligente, et nous proposons une application expérimentale qui est un panneau d’affichage proxémique des vols dans un aéroport. Basé sur cette application, nous avons réalisé des études utilisateurs systématiques dans notre laboratoire pour vérifier si l’interaction proxémique peut vraiment améliorer les performances d’un écran publicUbiquitous computing is gradually coming into reality, people use various digital devices (personal computer, laptop, tablet and smartphone) in order to study, work, entertain and communicate with each other. A city is actually a ubiquitous society, citizens get practical information from digital public displays that are installed everywhere in a city: bus station, railway station, airport or commercial center, etc. It seems that we are closing to the vision of ubiquitous computing, however, it’s still far from the vision what Mark Weiser described: the most profound technologies are those that disappear, they weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it. That means in nowadays the widespread digital devices are still not intelligent enough and not well integrated, this issue is especially serious under a context of city than for personal usage condition.Smart city is a modern concept of city that seeks to improve the efficiency and quality of life by the information and communication technologies (ICTs), it as well emphasizes the importance of citizens’ knowledge for the wise management of city. The ICTs of a smart city constructs a large scale ubiquitous system, including traffic control systems, public transportation system, energy control systems, etc. In all the systems, digital public displays are one of the most important viewports that connect citizens with city. However, the public display today is only used as a screen to display information, it’s blind to the presence of users and ambient devices, these result in low efficiency of interactions, and make a city unable to take use of citizen knowledge.In this dissertation, we build an intelligent public display by the theory of proxemic interaction. Proxemic interaction is spatial related interaction patterns inspired by the psychological term: Proxemics, it studies the spatial -related interaction human to device and device to device. A proxemic interactive public display means that it is aware of user’s presence, position, movement, identity and other user related attributes, and takes these attributes as implicit inputs for interactions. Besides, it can sense ambient mobile devices and act as a hub for local deices information flows. Compared with traditional public display, proxemic interactive display can provide specific users with more personal related and instant - need information rather than provide general information to all users. That means to make displays sense users instead of making users explore displays exhaustively. These advantages make a proxemic display more adapt to the prospect of smart city.Our object is to study how to address the challenges of public display in a smart city by proxemic interaction. Towards this object, we study the dimensions of proxemic interaction, and build a prototype of proxemic interactive projected display with Kinect, Leap motion and web camera. This prototype supports implicit and explicit interaction of users to provide more personalized contents to users, as well as natural interactions. Furthermore, we developed a toolkit for data migration between public display and personal mobile devices, so that public display becomes aware of ambient users’ devices, users can download resources from public displays freely, while public displays can be as a terminal to collect knowledge of citizens for smart city.We discuss the potential applications of this prototype under smart city, and build an experimental application of proxemic airport flight information board. Based on this experimental application, we organized a systematic laboratory user study to validate whether proxemic interaction can really improve the performance of public displays
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García, Ponce Isabel. "Cinética y proxemia en el aula." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/117779.
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Ahmadi, Danesh Ashtiani Ali. "ProGes: A User Interface for Multimedia Devices over the Internet of Things." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31865.
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With the rapid growth of online devices, a new concept of Internet of Things (IoT) is emerging in which everyday devices will be connected to the Internet. As the number of devices in IoT is increasing, so is the complexity of the interactions between user and devices. There is a need to design intelligent user interfaces that could assist users in interactions. Many studies have been conducted on different interaction techniques such as proxemic and gesture interaction in order to propose an intuitive and intelligent system for controlling multimedia devices over the IoT, though most could not propose a universal solution. The present study proposes a proximity-based and gesture-enabled user interface for multimedia devices over IoT. The proposed method employs a cloud-based decision engine to support user to choose and interact with the most appropriate device, reliving the user from the burden of enumerating available devices manually. The decision engine observes the multimedia content and device properties, learns user preferences adaptively, and automatically recommends the most appropriate device to interact. In addition to that, the proposed system uses proximity information to find the user among people and provides her/him gesture control services. Furthermore, a new hand gesture vocabulary is proposed for controlling multimedia devices through conducting a multiphase elicitation study. The main advantage of this vocabulary is that it can be used for all multimedia devices. Both device recommendation system and gesture vocabulary are evaluated. The device recommendation system evaluation shows that the users agree with the proposed interaction 70% of the times. Moreover, the average agreement score of the proposed gesture vocabulary (0.56) exceeds the score of similar studies. An external user evaluation study shows that the average score of being a good-match is 4.08 out of 5 and the average of ease-of-performance equals to 4.21 out of 5. The memory test reveals that the proposed vocabulary is easy to remember since participants could remember and perform gestures in 3.13 seconds on average. In addition to that, the average accuracy of remembering gestures equals to 91.54%.
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Tiphine, Lucas. ""L'événement proxémique" : étude des relations de circulation entre piétons aux heures de pointe à Delhi, Los Angeles, Paris et Tokyo." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSEN009/document.
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Dans un contexte de saturation des réseaux de circulation liée à l'accélération de l'urbanisation, le but de cette recherche est d’alimenter le débat scienti8ique sur les réponses à apporter à cet enjeu social par l’étude des comportements de régulation des distances physiques entre les piétons dans les lieux publics. La composante urbaine de la théorie de la proxémie d'Edward T. Hall est prise comme inspiration liminaire. Celle-ci soutient qu'il existe une corrélation entre l'organisation de l'espace macro de la Société et celui micro des comportements individuels. Elle conduit Hall à une distinction entre « cultures du contact » et du « non – contact », les premières préférant une plus grande proximité physique entre les corps. Toutefois, la différenciation des aires culturelles de Hall (par exemple : « monde arabe »= « culture du contact ») n'apparaît plus pertinente à l'ère de la mondialisation urbaine.Une nouvelle théorie « micromacro », fondée sur 4 macro-orientations susceptibles d'avoir une influence sur les comportements, est alors proposée : égalité entre citadins, individualisation, urbanité relative et régulation de l'urbanisme. Deux autres appréciations de l’existence d’une corrélation scalaire entre des niveaux de description des relations spatiales sont également testées. L'une, appelée « micromeso », s’inspire de la théorie des « sites comportementaux » de Roger Barker. Elle considère que les comportements proxémiques sont corrélés avec des unités intermédiaires définies par un lieu et une heure spécifiques telles que «le métro à l'heure de pointe». L'autre théorie,appelée « micro », affirme que toute forme de corrélation scalaire est une erreur écologique.Delhi, Los Angeles, Paris et Tokyo, qui répondent différemment aux macro-orientations de la théorie micromacro sont prises comme terrains d’étude. Les comportements à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur du métro de chacune de ces aires métropolitaines sont observés (théorie micromeso). Dans ces deux conditions, des niveaux similaires d’enjeu spatial sont étudiés (théorie micro). Les résultats amènent à conclure que les relations de circulation sont mieux décrites par ordre d'efficacité lorsqu'on les considère cumulativement comme micro > micromeso >micromacro. Je défends alors la thèse selon laquelle les sociétés devraient débattre des améliorations des microconditions des relations de circulation plutôt que de se concentrer sur les explications micromacro et micromeso des dysfonctionnements de celles-ci, qui peuvent par exemple être identifiées dans la mise en compétition des individus autour du thème de la civilitéIn a context of traf8ic networks saturation related to urbanisation acceleration, thisresearch is aimed at contributing to the scienti8ic debate on this issue by building a model to describe dynamic pedestrians’ physical distances regulation behaviours in public places.The urban dimension of Edward T. Hall’s theory of proxemics is taken as an initial inspiration. This author argues that a correlation exists between the organisation of space at the macro level of Society and the micro level of individual behaviours. It leads him to a synthetic distinction between ‘contact cultures’ and ‘non-contact cultures’. The former tends to prefer smaller distances at all scales of space organisation compared to the latter.This hypothesis is considered seriously in the research. Nonetheless, Hall’s macroculturalist anthropological area distinction (e.g.: the ‘Arab World’ = ‘contact culture’) isnot relevant anymore in the urban globalization era. Therefore, a new ‘micromacro’theory, based on 4 macro orientations expected to have an influence on micro behaviours,is proposed: equality between urban citizens, individualisation, relative urbanity and urban planning regulation.Two other scalar correlation theories of spatial relations description are also tested. One,called ‘micromeso’, is based on Roger Barker’s behaviour setting theory. It states thatproxemical behaviours are correlated with intermediate units related to a specific placeand time such as ‘the subway at peak hours’. The other theory, called ‘micro’, states thatany form of scalar correlation is an ecological fallacy. Accordingly, the description processhas to remain at the very level of physical distance relations between individuals.These different theories are tested empirically in Delhi, Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyowhich all answer differently to the macro orientations of the micromacro theory. Behaviours inside the metro and outside of it are observed (micromeso theory). In each condition, similar levels of spatial competition for places are taken into consideration (micro theory).The results lead to conclude that traffic relations between pedestrians are best describedwhen considered cumulatively as micro > micromeso > micromacro by order of efficiency. Eventually, I defend the thesis that urban dwellers should debate of traffic relationshipsmicro conditions improvements rather than focusing on micromacro and micromeso explanations of the networks breakdowns which can be found for instance in the competition promoted between individuals on civil behaviours
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Huguenin, Fernanda Pacheco da Silva. "As praias de Ipanema : liminaridade e proxemia à beira-mar." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2011. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/9516.
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As praias brasileiras são espaços públicos de livre acesso. Do ponto de vista nativo, há um mito de que elas são também espaços democráticos, pois a quase nudez dos banhistas apagaria todas as distinções sociais. A praia de Ipanema, no Rio de Janeiro, é exaltada comoum lugar aberto aos mais diferentes grupos urbanos, desde que cada um deles fique em seupróprio território e não ultrapasse certos limites físicos e simbólicos. O objetivo desta teseé refletir sobre o significado da democracia à beira-mar, não apenas quanto ao acesso, mas também no que tange às fronteiras demarcadas pelas representações acerca do corpo e do comportamento dos frequentadores das areias ipanemenses. A pesquisa fundamenta-se, metodologicamente, em observação participante, entrevistas semiestruturadas, análise dedocumentos da mídia e de produções artísticas. A partir da minha perspectiva e dosresultados dos registros etnográficos, considero que a praia é uma região moral e, portanto,se constitui como um espaço de liminaridade, onde operam códigos que excedemao ethos dominante. Por outro lado, concluo que as relações estabelecidas na praiareproduzem determinados padrões da própria segmentação da cidade em termos dedistâncias geográficas e sociais. Isso faz com que a faixa de areia seja territorializada à maneira da proxemia atribuída à contemporaneidade. O espaço da praia é apresentadocomo um campo politico onde disputas e conflitos continuamente produzem ambiguidadese tensões entre democracia e seu oposto: demofobia. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
Brazilian beaches are public spaces to where access is freely granted to all. From a nativemythic point of view, they are democratic spaces where their users’ quasi-nudity makes allsocial distinctions vanish. Ipanema beach, in Rio de Janeiro, has been considered one ofsuch open spaces open to the most different urban groups – as long as each one of thesegroups remains in its own territory and does not attempt to cross certain physical andsymbolic borders. The purpose of this dissertation is to assess the meaning of this so-calledbeach front democracy. The dissertation does not focus only on the allegedly free access tothe beaches themselves. It mainly aims to scrutinize, beyond such free access, therepresentation of bodies and behaviors elicited by Ipanema beach goers. The presentresearch, is methodologically based on participant’s observation, on semi-structuredinterviews, and on media and artistic productions’ documental analyses. In my perspective,and as a result of my ethnography record, beaches are considered and established as moralareas; therefore, building liminal spaces where operating codes exceed the dominant ethos.On the other hand, I assert that relationships established on that particular beach reproducepatterns due to the marked city’s segmentation in geographic and social distance terms: inother words, they territorialize Ipanema’s sands according to contemporary proxemics.Beach space is presented as a political field where disputes and conflicts are continuouslyproducing ambiguities and tensions between democracy and its opposite: demophoby.
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Ущаповска, Ірина Василівна, Ирина Васильевна Ущаповская, and Iryna Vasylivna Ushchapovska. "Етнозорієнтованість проксеміки та хронеміки як невербальних кодів кроскультурної комунікації." Thesis, Український гуманітарний інститут (Київ-Буча, Україна), 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/45073.
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У статті розглянуто проксеміку та хронеміку як етногзорієнтовані невербальні коди кроскультурної комунікації. Виявлені деякі специфічні властивості та вербалізація цих невербальних засобів комунікації в різних лінгвокультурних спільнотах. Вивчені особливості національно-культурного сприйняття проксеміки та хронеміки як невербальних крос культурних кодів.В статье рассматриваются проксемика и хронемика как этноориентированные невербальные коды кросскультурной коммуникации. Показаны некоторые специфические качества и вербализация этих невербальных способов коммуникации в разных лингвокультурных сообществах. Изучены национально-культурные особенности восприятия проксемики и хронемики как невербальных кросскультурных кодов.
The paper deals with proxemics and chronemics as ethnically oriented non-verbal aspects of cross-cultural communication. Some specific features of these two means of non-verbal communication and their verbalization across cultures have been revealed. National and cultural peculiarities of perception of proxemics and chronemics as non-verbal cross-cultural codes have been studied.
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Walters, Michael L. "The design space for robot appearance and behaviour for social robot companions." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/1806.
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To facilitate necessary task-based interactions and to avoid annoying or upsetting people a domestic robot will have to exhibit appropriate non-verbal social behaviour. Most current robots have the ability to sense and control for the distance of people and objects in their vicinity. An understanding of human robot proxemic and associated non-verbal social behaviour is crucial for humans to accept robots as domestic or servants. Therefore, this thesis addressed the following hypothesis: Attributes of robot appearance, behaviour, task context and situation will affect the distances that people will find comfortable between themselves and a robot. Initial exploratory Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) experiments replicated human-human studies into comfortable approach distances with a mechanoid robot in place of one of the human interactors. It was found that most human participants respected the robot's interpersonal space and there were systematic differences for participants' comfortable approach distances to robots with different voice styles. It was proposed that greater initial comfortable approach distances to the robot were due to perceived inconsistencies between the robots overall appearance and voice style. To investigate these issues further it was necessary to develop HRI experimental set-ups, a novel Video-based HRI (VHRI) trial methodology, trial data collection methods and analytical methodologies. An exploratory VHRI trial then investigated human perceptions and preferences for robot appearance and non-verbal social behaviour. The methodological approach highlighted the holistic and embodied nature of robot appearance and behaviour. Findings indicated that people tend to rate a particular behaviour less favourably when the behaviour is not consistent with the robot’s appearance. A live HRI experiment finally confirmed and extended from these previous findings that there were multiple factors which significantly affected participants preferences for robot to human approach distances. There was a significant general tendency for participants to prefer either a tall humanoid robot or a short mechanoid robot and it was suggested that this may be due to participants internal or demographic factors. Participants' preferences for robot height and appearance were both found to have significant effects on their preferences for live robot to Human comfortable approach distances, irrespective of the robot type they actually encountered. The thesis confirms for mechanoid or humanoid robots, results that have previously been found in the domain of human-computer interaction (cf. Reeves & Nass (1996)), that people seem to automatically treat interactive artefacts socially. An original empirical human-robot proxemic framework is proposed in which the experimental findings from the study can be unified in the wider context of human-robot proxemics. This is seen as a necessary first step towards the desired end goal of creating and implementing a working robot proxemic system which can allow the robot to: a) exhibit socially acceptable social spatial behaviour when interacting with humans, b) interpret and gain additional valuable insight into a range of HRI situations from the relative proxemic behaviour of humans in the immediate area. Future work concludes the thesis.
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Franzén, Thobias. "Participatory culture in museums." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22336.
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In 2012 library and museum professionals from 24 different countries met in Salzburg, Austria for the Salzburg Global Seminar. The seminar was entitled Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture. Shortly summarised their views of participatory culture includes low barriers for engagement, strong support for creating, sharing and feeling a social connection with each other. During the seminar it was mentioned that participatory culture usually exists online and that their challenge was in creating experiences that work both online and offline and allow for meaningful participation.Contemporary examples of museums working with participatory culture to engage their visitors is presented. Inspired by these examples and working with research through design as main method technology experiments and prototypes are conducted to develop a concept. Findings from this iterative process leads to a final concept that has the potential to engage museum visitors both online and offline. In one part of this concept museum visitors explores a narrative in a physical interactive exhibition. Visitors proxemic relations to objects and other people is used to trigger media and unfold the full story in a room. In the end of the prototype visitors are asked to write a physical postcard that is also published on a web page.The final concept presented can be scaled and customised to suit many different scenarios and context. When structuring the narratives clear instructions guiding visitors through the experience should be included. The people who were invited to try this prototype all created content and were curios to know what other people had written.
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Kesim, Berk. "The Boulevard As A Communication Tool." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611214/index.pdf.
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The main concern of this thesis is examining the affects and causes of traffic oriented design on the social generation of boulevards in terms of communication. For this purpose, boulevard concept and its historical evaluation are explained. In addition, communication is used as a tool for understanding, combining and examining the social and technical structure of boulevard.
In this respect, this thesis aims to explore the boulevard concept with the spatial communication measures. To provide empirical evidence, a chart of categories of communication is prepared in terms of human and machine interposed aspects of communication. The activities of relation along the boulevard are examined by transversal and longitudinal movements with the help of the behavioral sciences and proxemics and the theoretical relation between boulevard and communication is applied on the case of The Atatürk Boulevard, Ankara. It is observed from the findings that, longitudinal movement prior to situated activity is increased, the transversal movement prior to random activity is decreased. This causes the loss of human aspects along the boulevard, which is designed for human.
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Ballereau, Valérie. "Analyse proxémique des parties prenantes dans la décision stratégique des entrepreneurs de PME/TPE : expérimentation sur l'influence du genre." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012MON10015/document.
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Cette recherche a pour but d'étudier le rôle joué par les parties prenantes et plus spécifiquement par l'une d'entre elles, la famille, sur les décisions stratégiques des entrepreneurs de PME/TPE, en étudiant d'éventuelles différences de genre. Le cadre conceptuel retenu est celui des effets de proxémie en PME/TPE tels que définis par Torrès (2003) à partir des travaux en psycho-sociologie de l'espace de Moles et Rohmer (1978). La loi proxémique montre qu'un individu tend à privilégier tout ce qui est proche au détriment de ce qui est lointain. Torrès montre comment les entrepreneurs n'échappent pas à cette loi et comment leurs décisions stratégiques peuvent s'expliquer par ces principes hiérarchiques. Nous testons la validité d'un principe proxémique à partir de la théorie des couches de Gibb (1988) qui propose une hiérarchie des parties prenantes de la PME. L'étude est conduite à partir d'une expérimentation définie par le cadre de l'économie expérimentale. Les résultats ouvrent des perspectives innovantes dans la compréhension des décisions stratégiques des femmes entrepreneures, et mettent en évidence l'intérêt théorique de la loi proxémique pour les étudier à partir de leur réalité propre (Carrier, et al, 2006) et non pas en comparaison aux hommesThe scope of the research is an analysis of stakeholders' influences on strategic decisions, focusing principally on the role of family, within a gender perspective. The theoretical framework is the proxemic influence in Small Businesses. This framework was defined by Torrès (2003) based on the work of psycho-sociologists Moles and Rohmer (1978). The proxemic theory emphasizes the prevalence of things, people and elements that are close compared to those which are more remote. Torrès shows how strategic decisions of entrepreneurs are embedded by this proxemic influence. We test the validity of this law through the layers of theory defended by Gibb (1988) which identified a hierarchic influence of the stakeholders. The empirical study is based on an experiment structured from the experimental economics field. Men and women entrepreneurs are the subject of the experiment.Results show, innovative opportunities to better understand the strategic decisions of women entrepreneurs. They also highlight the theoretical interest of the proxemic principle to survey women from their own perspective, rather than only from the male comparison
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TROVO, Priscila Azzolini. "Design da sala de aula: arranjos espaciais e suas potencialidades." Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, 2017. http://sitios.anhembi.br/tedesimplificado/handle/TEDE/1685.
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The school environment forms a system of values and speeches, in which its users are stimulated to learn. In this context, the present dissertation aims to investigate the relationship between the design of the classroom and the possi- ble interactions and experiences of its users, through the analysis of the spatial arrangements and their potentialities. The research involves bibliographical re- view, articulation of theoretical concepts, contextualization of space and place and an understanding of the classroom as an adaptive complex system. In this approach, three spatial arrangements of classrooms, identified by Scott-Webber (2009) as recurrent in educational institutions, are set up in rigid and fluid en- vironments, analyzed through personal space (SOMMER, 1973) and proxemic zones (HALL, 2006) theories. Therefore, it is possible to trace an activity profile and intention by using each arrangement, in order to promote the desired inte- ractions. It is discussed the rigidity of the projected space and its possibilities of adaptability to the needs of the users. In conclusion, the need to design spaces is more flexible and adaptable to contemporary demands.
O ambiente escolar formata um sistema de valores e discursos, no qual seus usuários são estimulados à aprendizagem. Neste sentido, esta dissertação tem como objetivo investigar a relação entre o design da sala de aula e as possíveis interações e experiências dos usuários, a partir da análise dos arranjos espaciais e suas potencialidades. A pesquisa envolve revisão bibliográfica, articulação dos conceitos teóricos, contextualização acerca de espaço e lugar e compreensão da sala de aula como sistema complexo adaptativo. Nesta abordagem, observa- se três arranjos espaciais de salas de aula, apontadas por Scott-Webber (2009) como recorrentes em instituições de ensino, que configuram ambientes rígidos e fluídos, analisados a partir das teorias de espaço pessoal (SOMMER, 1973) e zonas proxêmicas (HALL, 2006). Assim, é possível traçar um perfil de atividade e intenção com o uso de cada um dos arranjos, a fim de promover as interações desejadas. Discute-se a rigidez do espaço projetado e suas possibilidades de adaptabilidade às necessidades dos usuários. Conclui-se a necessidade de projetar espaços mais flexíveis e adaptáveis às demandas contemporâneas.
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Lavadinho, Sonia. "Le renouveau de la marche urbaine : Terrains, acteurs et politiques." Phd thesis, Ecole normale supérieure de lyon - ENS LYON, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00737160.
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Cette thèse est consacrée au phénomène du renouveau de la marche en milieu urbain. Depuis une dizaine d'années, un grand nombre de villes en Europe et ailleurs ont entamé une réflexion en profondeur sur la promotion de la marche sur leur territoire. Cette démarche est accompagnée d'opérations de valorisation urbanistique, à différentes échelles, dans une optique de développement intégré de la ville dite multimodale. La marche est ici considérée non pas uniquement pour elle-même, mais en tant que pivot de la multimodalité. Ce thème porteur de nouvelles dynamiques d'aménagement qui transforment le fait urbain est analysé à partir d'un cadre théorique transversal à la croisée de l'urbanisme, la géographie, la sociologie et l'anthropologie urbaines. La méthode employée est fondée sur l'observation participante multi-terrains, prenant comme cas d'étude principaux Lausanne, Genève et Bilbao. A partir des expériences menées par ces villes pour promouvoir la marche à différentes échelles, la thèse construit son plaidoyer autour de l'échelle de l'agglomération, envisagée comme la seule à même de pouvoir véritablement assurer le renouveau de la marche dans le contexte de la ville du XXIe siècle. Ce plaidoyer récapitule les raisons qui font de cette nouvelle échelle de réflexion, a priori inattendue, une étape nécessaire pour garantir l'intégration de la marche au sein de stratégies multimodales complexes au sein de bassins de vie toujours plus étendus. La thèse passe ainsi en revue diverses actions pour redonner à la marche ses lettres de noblesse et lui assurer la place qui lui revient au sein du système de mobilité complexe qui fonde aujourd'hui le monde urbain.
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Bega-Hart, Angelica. "Shaken and Stirred: Tactile Imagery and Narrative Immediacy in J. D. Salinger's "Blue Melody," "A Girl I Knew," and "Just Before the War with the Eskimos"." VCU Scholars Compass, 2011. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/2641.
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J.D. Salinger’s ‘A Girl I Knew,’ ‘Just Before the War with the Eskimos,’ and ‘Blue Melody,’ contain key thematic and narratological elements that contribute to the development of character through repeated reference to tactile imagery and through each character’s reaction to the sensations associated with tactile images. Salinger’s descriptions of tactile interaction allow readers to see his characters connected in ways that were increasingly difficult in the 1950’s, where widespread cultural changes contributed to increasing physical and emotional distancing. Critics have argued that “vision” is at the heart of many of Salinger’s characters’ struggles, since they “seek” a level of human connectedness not found in other narratives. However, Salinger's stories do not provide a mere record of observed physical characteristics as some claim; instead, they present concrete physical details that take both the character and the reader beyond sight to touch, in an effort to create the intimate space necessary for redemption. Using theoretical work by critics who focus on tactile imagery pinpoints how Salinger’s characters situate themselves in relation to the world around them and how setting and other narrative mechanics influence character. Salinger’s attention to tactile imagery influences character in a profound way creating a “narrative of immediacy” where closeness is further reinforced through tactile physical descriptions, attention to gesture, and use of conversational popular vernacular.
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Chen, Huei-Chuan, and 陳惠娟. "The Study of Multi-user Interactive Space Design with Proxemics." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84397503321192917452.
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Interpersonal distance and interpersonal positioning must be taken into account in designing multi-user interactive space design in order to avoid anxiety caused by improper interaction and space. To solve this problem, this study uses proxemics as the theoretical basis of designing multi-user interactive space which meets human needs. On the one hand, people can move freely in the space, and, on the other hand, creators can keep the message which they want to express in their creation. This study will review literatures about proxemics as well as interactive space design, and concludes the process and principles of multi-user interactive space. Then two prototypes of interactive space design with musical situations of different level of orientation are developed for experiment. This study divides undergraduate students into two groups, those with high trait anxiety and low trait anxiety, and each group consists of 16 students. Two interactive situations are used. Their satisfaction and anxiety are evaluated through multi-users interactive space user satisfaction scale and STAI-S. The result indicates that both interactive situations generate high satisfaction and users don’t feel anxious after visiting. It is shown that “Multi-user interactive space design” does lift satisfaction and decrease anxiety. In observing the difference of orientation level, the study suggests that high-orientation space design raises the times of the occurrence of interpersonal behavior, but produces lower privacy and learnability effects than low-orientation space design.
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Spencer, Kristen. "Flow and pause: exploring human movement within a transit interchange." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3866.
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Due to the increase of global flows, people, products and information are moving faster than ever before. Transit stations in turn have largely lost the ability to connect the traveller with the local environment, evolving into bland and homogeneous spaces. By introducing a means to pause within these flows, it becomes possible to once again engage in and absorb the surroundings that have become ignored and disregarded.
This study aims to reconnect user and the local context through an interior design of a multi-modal transit interchange. Dance and human movement are used as a methodology to unite user with place, ultimately informing new programs and spatial arrangements. The resulting interior design is able to foster place identity, allowing the user to slow their movements in order to create meaningful social, cultural and contextual connections within a transit space.
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Santos, Pedro Emanuel Albuquerque e. Baptista dos. "Applications across Co-located Devices." Doctoral thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/134201.
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We live surrounded by many computing devices. However, their presence has yet to
be fully explored to create a richer ubiquitous computing environment. There is an
opportunity to take better advantage of those devices by combining them into a unified
user experience. To realize this vision, we studied and explored the use of a framework,
which provides the tools and abstractions needed to develop applications that distribute
UI components across co-located devices.
The framework comprises the following components: authentication and authorization
services; a broker to sync information across multiple application instances; background
services that gather the capabilities of the devices; and a library to integrate
web applications with the broker, determine which components to show based on UI
requirements and device capabilities, and that provides custom elements to manage the
distribution of the UI components and the multiple application states. Collaboration
between users is supported by sharing application states. An indoor positioning solution
had to be developed in order to determine when devices are close to each other to trigger
the automatic redistribution of UI components.
The research questions that we set out to respond are presented along with the contributions
that have been produced. Those contributions include a framework for crossdevice
applications, an indoor positioning solution for pervasive indoor environments,
prototypes, end-user studies and developer focused evaluation. To contextualize our
research, we studied previous research work about cross-device applications, proxemic
interactions and indoor positioning systems.
We presented four application prototypes. The first three were used to perform studies
to evaluate the user experience. The last one was used to study the developer experience
provided by the framework. The results were largely positive with users showing preference
towards using multiple devices under some circumstances. Developers were also
able to grasp the concepts provided by the framework relatively well.Vivemos rodeados de dispositivos computacionais. No entanto, ainda não tiramos partido da sua presença para criar ambientes de computação ubíqua mais ricos. Existe uma oportunidade de combiná-los para criar uma experiência de utilizador unificada. Para realizar esta visão, estudámos e explorámos a utilização de uma framework que forneça ferramentas e abstrações que permitam o desenvolvimento de aplicações que distribuem os componentes da interface do utilizador por dispositivos co-localizados. A framework é composta por: serviços de autenticação e autorização; broker que sincroniza informação entre várias instâncias da aplicação; serviços que reúnem as capacidades dos dispositivos; e uma biblioteca para integrar aplicações web com o broker, determinar as componentes a mostrar com base nos requisitos da interface e nas capacidades dos dispositivos, e que disponibiliza elementos para gerir a distribuição dos componentes da interface e dos estados de aplicação. A colaboração entre utilizadores é suportada através da partilha dos estados de aplicação. Foi necessário desenvolver um sistema de posicionamento em interiores para determinar quando é que os dispositivos estão perto uns dos outros para despoletar a redistribuição automática dos componentes da interface. As questões de investigação inicialmente colocadas são apresentadas juntamente com as contribuições que foram produzidas. Essas contribuições incluem uma framework para aplicações multi-dispositivo, uma solução de posicionamento em interiores para computação ubíqua, protótipos, estudos com utilizadores finais e avaliação com programadores. Para contextualizar a nossa investigação, estudámos trabalhos anteriores sobre aplicações multi-dispositivo, interação proxémica e sistemas de posicionamento em interiores. Apresentámos quatro aplicações protótipo. As primeiras três foram utilizadas para avaliar a experiência de utilização. A última foi utilizada para estudar a experiência de desenvolvimento com a framework. Os resultados foram geralmente positivos, com os utilizadores a preferirem utilizar múltiplos dispositivos em certas circunstâncias. Os programadores também foram capazes de compreender a framework relativamente bem.
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Simard, Céline. "Perception de l’usager sur les réalités des environnements de travail à aire ouverte en lien avec l’affordance et la proxémie." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/20013.
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Tente, Sara Dolores da Rocha. "A gestão dos espaços na consulta de medicina dentária na clínica universitária." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/13223.
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O presente estudo pretendeu fornecer uma definição dos componentes da comunicação não verbal e a sua importância no processo comunicativo durante a consulta de Medicina Dentária.
Baseado numa temática dinâmica, começa-se por uma reflexão sobre a complexidade da comunicação humana, vista como um todo integrado de formas de comportamento e processada em dois níveis: o verbal e o não verbal. É sobre este último que este estudo incide, evidenciando investigações levadas a cabo nesta área. Desta forma, na comunicação não verbal, descartada de palavras, toda a informação é obtida por meio de sinais vocálicos, aparência física, cinética, proxémica, contacto físico, cronémica e artefactos. Um outro aspecto avaliado é o estabelecimento de contacto visual e a importância que desempenha na comunicação não verbal.
Finalmente, a reflexão dá lugar a um estudo exploratório de comunicação não verbal nomeadamente dos aspectos proxémicos no âmbito da Medicina Dentária. Para tal, foi efectuada a videogravação de vinte consultas decorridas na Clínica Dentária Universitária, Centro Regional das Beiras, da Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Foram efectuadas filmagens no contexto de diversas áreas médico-dentárias, elaborando-se posteriormente fotogramas onde se mediram distâncias de interacção e ângulos do contacto ocular formados entre os intervenientes. Seguiu-se um tratamento dos resultados obtidos por um pequeno questionário entregue aos pacientes.
Da descrição quantitativa e análise comparativa destes, constatou-se a inexistência de diferenças globais entre os médicos do género feminino e do género masculino, ano frequentado e área disciplinar. As observações efectuadas permitiram perceber que as distâncias existentes entre médico e paciente são a íntima (de 15 a 40cm) e a pessoal (de 45 a 125cm).
Concluiu-se, assim, que, apesar das pequenas diferenças observadas, o comportamento não verbal dos médicos desta amostra não difere em termos de nível de execução.The present study seeks to provide a definition of the nonverbal components of communication and its importance in the communicative process in the context of consultation in Dentistry. Based on a dynamic theme, it begins by reflecting on the complexity of human communication, seen as an integrated whole of forms of behavior and processed at two levels: verbal and nonverbal. It is on the latter that this study focuses, highlighting research studies conducted in this area. Thus, regarding non-verbal communication, stripped of words, all information is obtained by means of vocal signs, physical appearance, kinetics, proxemics, physical contact, chronemics and (social) artifacts. Another aspect is the establishment of eye contact and the importance it plays in nonverbal communication. Finally, reflection gives rise to an exploratory study of nonverbal communication, namely the proxemic aspects in Dentistry. To this end, a video recording was made of twenty consultations in the Clínica Dentária Universitária, from the Centro Regional das Beiras – Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Shots were taken in the context of various medical and dental areas, later obtaining frames where distances of interaction and eye contact angles formed between the doctor and patient were measured. This was followed by analysis of the results obtained from a short questionnaire given to patients. From the quantitative description and comparative analysis of these, it was found that there are no overall differences between doctors in gender, year attended or subject area. The observations led to realize that the distance between doctor and patient are the intimate space (15 to 40cm) and the personal space (45 to 125cm). It was therefore concluded that, despite slight differences, nonverbal behavior of physicians in this sample did not differ in terms of level of performance.
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Silva, José Fernando Morais da. "Comunicação não verbal na comunicação de massas : uma investigação no contexto televisivo português." Doctoral thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/31439.
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Esta investigação tem como objetivo analisar a comunicação não verbal exercida pelos
apresentadores de televisão, na função de pivô durante a leitura das notícias. O ponto central
que enquadra este objetivo foi o de perceber de que forma os modelos apresentados na
literatura pode ajudar a analisar a comunicação dos profissionais de televisão no contexto
televisivo nacional. O recorte teórico permitiu revelar, através das dimensões biológica e
cultural, as principais propostas e os principais modelos, nomeadamente a Acão Visual,
Cinesia, Cronógrafo, Espaço Envolvente & Aparência, Háptico, Paralinguística, Proxémica
e o Sistema de Codificação da Ação Facial. A pesquisa empírica desenvolvida em Portugal,
inclui a observação de 36 vídeos do ano de 2016, e 12 entrevistas a apresentadores de
televisão dos canais RTP, SIC e TVI. O corpus de análise permitiu criar uma ferramenta de
observação que se propõe e se inscreve como Matriz R-CNV. A investigação permitiu
concluir que é possível analisar os apresentadores de televisão com recurso aos principais
modelos apresentados na literatura, nomeadamente pelas propostas de Birdwhistell (1952,
1970) e Ekman e Friesen (1969, 1978). Da mesma forma, permitiu concluir que numa
relação de simultaneidade entre o não verbal e o verbal existe, pode dizer-se, uma maior
predominância da comunicação não verbal sobre a comunicação verbal. Constata-se também
que, apesar das evidências observadas em geral, os jornalistas apresentadores não fazem uso
de técnicas específicas em comunicação não verbal, não ambicionam a criação de
personalidades televisivas diferenciadores, ou realizam atos de representação durante a
leitura das notícias, apesar de terem conhecimento da sua importância e de manifestarem
cuidados a ter perante a exposição púbica.This research aims to analyze the nonverbal communication performed by television hosts, while reading the news. The central point that allowed us to frame the purpose, was to understand how the models portrayed in the literature could help to observe these professionals as national television anchors. The theoretical framework allowed to reveal, through the biological and cultural dimensions, the main proposals and models, namely Chronemics, Haptics, Kinesics, Oculesics, Paralanguage, Physical Environment & Appearance, Proxemics and the Facial Action Coding System. The empirical research developed in Portugal, includes the observation of 36 videos from the year 2016, and 12 interviews with television anchors of the channels RTP, SIC and TVI. The corpus analysis allowed us to create an observation tool that is proposed and inscribed as Matrix R-NVC. The research concluded that it is possible to observe television anchors using the main models portrayed in the literature, namely by the proposals of Birdwhistell (1952, 1970) and Ekman and Friesen (1969, 1978). Also, it was concluded that in a relationship of simultaneity between nonverbal and verbal, there is a greater predominance of nonverbal communication over verbal communication. It is also noted that, despite the evidence observed, the anchors do not use specific techniques in nonverbal communication, do not aim to create differentiating television personalities, or perform acts of representation while reading the news, despite being aware of the their importance and the need to be careful about public exposure.
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Städtler, Helge [Verfasser]. "Virtuelle Proxemik : Konzeption, Implementierung und Evaluation einer Komponente zur Bereitstellung proxemischer Information im E-Learning / Helge Städtler." 2008. http://d-nb.info/991993268/34.
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Gonçalves, Lígia Elena Fernandes. "Avaliação e validação de instalações interativas para museus." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/461.
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Desenhar e avaliar experiências interativas digitais para museus, são processos
complexos que requerem muita atenção, sobretudo nos aspectos que contribuem para que a mesma seja uma experiência de aprendizagem rica e cativante. Por outro lado, a avaliação de instalações interativas em museus é uma tarefa muito exigente devido à interseção de múltiplos campos de pesquisa, como a interação humano computador, design e multimédia, museologia,
estudo de audiências e outros.
Neste projeto foi criada uma plataforma com dez parâmetros específicos que permite
avaliar e guiar o desenho de instalações interativas, concebidos especificamente para museus. A conceção da plataforma foi baseada em métodos e princípios de avaliação de usabilidade atuais, bem como na literatura sobre museologia. Seguidamente foi refinada de forma iterativa e, por fim, foi validada através de um estudo de longo prazo, sobre a interatividade do em todos os museus interativos da Ilha da Madeira.
Além disso, e em paralelo com a criação desta plataforma de avaliação, foi criada,
desenhada e desenvolvida uma instalação interativa cujo objetivo principal seria oferecer uma experiência de visita ao museu completamente diferente do que os visitantes estão habituados, na Madeira. Foi instalada na Casa-Museu Frederico de Freitas e apresentou um feedback muito positivo por parte dos visitantes do museu, que afirmaram ter gostado da experiência e ter adquirido algum conhecimento sobre a história e cultura da Madeira. A criação desta instalação permitiu aplicar a plataforma de avaliação criada, de forma iterativa ao longo de todo o processo de design e desenvolvimento, guiando e apoiando todas as fases e tomadas de decisão.
Os resultados obtidos enfatizam a importância de adotar a plataforma proposta para futuras pesquisas sobre avaliação museus interativos. Além disso, demonstram a utilidade desta plataforma no design e desenvolvimento de instalações interativas que, por sua vez, revelaram ter um impacto positivo na integração nos museus da Região.Universidade Aberta