Edward Twitchell Hall was an anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher. Some of his research was looking in to the personal space people have and with different distances from the body the feeling towards the other elements would give different emotions.
For example, If another person were to be within a foot of your body, this would be considered to be intimate space...following that another 3ft would be personal space, then another 9ft on top of that would be social space and ending with anything out of the perimeters of 26ft would be public space. Knowing this and researching into the field of how people change the way they feel in relation to foreign objects can help us in determining where to project our interactive video.
Above is a diagram to show this space, showing the distance along with the type of space it represents to the person, who is situated in the middle.
The diagram above shows two people that are not in any contact with each other and have no effect on either persons space.
Here the two people have now become close enough to both interact with each other and violate their personal space. In heavily populated areas where many people are forced together such as subways, ques and crowded environments, peoples personal space clearly tends to be much smaller.
These example diagrams are definitely useful for how people feel about the space that surrounds them in regards to my specific project.
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