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PROXEMICS-PERSONAL-SPACE5 MIN READ

Walk the lab-tour boundary

Guide visitors through a workspace while protecting body space, task territory, and safety zones.

Visitor proxemics A customer group enters a prototype lab while engineers are working at benches. The host must create access without letting the tour invade active work territory. Without spatial guidance, visitors follow curiosity and engineers become boundary guards. Tour frame Mark, ask, narrate Give visitors a clear place to stand, ask before crossing work territory, and use narration to maintain immediacy from a safe distance. Shortcut Let visitors gather naturally around the interesting bench. Visitors feel included and the working territory stays intact. Safety-sensitive spaces need explicit temporary territories. 01 Boundary 02 Distance 03 Questions Set the boundary mark

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