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In this keynote presentation, I describe and illustrate proxemic interactions as realized in several projects in my laboratory. My goal is to advocate proxemics as a more natural way of mediating inter-entity interactions in ubiquitous computing environments, while still cautioning about the many pitfalls around its use.
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Greenberg, S. (2011). Opportunities for Proxemic Interactions in Ubicomp (Keynote). In: Campos, P., Graham, N., Jorge, J., Nunes, N., Palanque, P., Winckler, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2011. INTERACT 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6946. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23774-4_3
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