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Weightlessness and Interaction Distance

A Simulation of Interpersonal Contact in Outer Space

University of California, Davis

Susan C. Westfall

Merritt Island, Florida

Robert Sommer

Department of Environmental Design at the University of California, Davis

Albert A. Harrison

College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Davis

Participants were asked to place two doll figures at comfortable conversation distances in a simulated space station and in an ordinary living room. The space station condition involved unusual orientations of the figures found under zero gravity conditions. The largest conversational distances occurred in the most unusual orientations of the two figures. Implications of these findings and of individual differences in patterns of response to unusual conversational orientations are discussed.

Environment and Behavior, Vol. 24, No. 5, 617-633 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/0013916592245003


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