When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Ever notice how space in a car fills up? How about space in a bus? How about space at a bar? Then you need to know about proxemics. It’s the study of how, precisely, humans like their space arranged — ...

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

“Proxemics” is the study of the way humans use space. Coined by anthropologist Edward T. Hall in the 1960s, the term appears most often in the fields of intercultural and interpersonal communication.

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