Sociable trash box: Proxemics in dynamic interactions

Sociable trash box: Proxemics in dynamic interactions: "Sociable Trash Box: Proxemics in Dynamic Interactions
ScienceDaily (Sep. 24, 2012) — Toyohashi Tech researchers use 'robotic social trash boxes' to investigate interactions between humans and robots for improving robot-to-human communications.

Humans regulate their interactions according to different contexts, the degree of the relationship, cultural factors, gender, age, and so on. These factors can be utilized as an interpersonal boundary-control mechanism which is totally dependent on encouraging or discouraging another person's interactions. Humans are expected to dynamically optimize the above mechanism according to the interpersonal distances and personal spaces (proxemics)."

'via Blog this'