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Robin Welsch, Sylvia Rothe, Sven Mayer
Proxemics in Virtual Reality: What Should We Put to the Test in Social VR?
In the Proceedings of the 2021 Social VR Workshop - A New Medium for Remote Communication and Collaboration, 2021-05-07 (bib)

When approaching another user in social VR, there comes the point where we start to feel uncomfortable and intruded upon. Therefore, users maintain a personal space that is kept clear from others, much like in the real world. Although many determinants on the size of personal space have been identified, the process of maintaining and constructing a personal space in social VR is not well investigated, especially in multi-user environments. In the following, we will present the most important developments within the proxemic research field and raise opportunities and challenges for proxemics in social VR.