| Title | Personal Space: The Behavioral Basis of Design |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Year of Publication | 1969 |
| Authors | Sommer, R |
| Publisher | New jersey, Prentice Hall, |
| Abstract | Good overview of personal space in humans. "A non-person cannot invade someone's personal space, anymore than can a teee or chair can. it is common for one person to react to another as an object or part of the background. Examples would be hospital nurses who discuss a patien's condition at his bedside, seemingly oblivious to his prescence, the Negro maid in a white home who serves dinner while the husband and wife discuss the race quesion (sic.), and the janitir who enters an office without knocking to empty the waste basket while th eoccupants is making a phone call " |
Posted by mickwalters on Thursday, 19 February, 2009 /
