{"id":8232,"date":"2012-08-06T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betaknowledge.tumblr.com\/post\/28847986101"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:57:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:57:55","slug":"via-read-in-wired-a-sociologist-esther-kim-from-yale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2012\/08\/06\/via-read-in-wired-a-sociologist-esther-kim-from-yale\/","title":{"rendered":"(via) Read in Wired, a sociologist, Esther Kim from Yale\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<img src=\"http:\/\/25.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_m8cj2iV2qX1qgczcwo1_500.jpg\"\/><br\/><br\/><p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenthaug.com\/blog\/\">via<\/a>) Read in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2012-08\/02\/bus-stranger-avoidance\">Wired<\/a>, a sociologist, Esther Kim from Yale University was interested in\u00a0the tactics employed by people to keep a free seat in the bus:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul><li>Avoid eye contact<\/li>\n<li>Lean against the window and stretch out your legs.<\/li>\n<li>Sit on the aisle seat and listen to music to pretend not to hear people asking for the window seat.<\/li>\n<li>Place a large bag or multiple items in the empty seat to make it time-consuming to move.<\/li>\n<li>Look out the window with a blank stare to appear crazy.<\/li>\n<li>Pretend to be asleep.<\/li>\n<li>Put your coat on the seat to make it appear already taken.<\/li>\n<li>If all else fails, lie: Say the seat has been taken by someone else.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Why do I blog this?<\/strong> A fascinating example of how people adopt very simple behavior to avoid a proximate interaction with strangers. The underlying reasons for doing that is also relevant.\u00a0Potentially intriguing for designers interested in playing with this situation.<\/p><div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?a=i9d6VhxqceQ:60FBn0qOqcs:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?a=i9d6VhxqceQ:60FBn0qOqcs:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?a=i9d6VhxqceQ:60FBn0qOqcs:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?i=i9d6VhxqceQ:60FBn0qOqcs:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/NicolasNova\/~4\/i9d6VhxqceQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via) Read in Wired, a sociologist, Esther Kim from Yale University was interested in\u00a0the tactics employed by people to keep a free seat in the bus:<\/p>\n<p>Avoid eye contact<br \/>\nLean against the window and stretch out your legs.<br \/>\nSit on the aisle seat and listen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,169],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>(via) Read in Wired, a sociologist, Esther Kim from Yale\u2026 - Near Future Laboratory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2012\/08\/06\/via-read-in-wired-a-sociologist-esther-kim-from-yale\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"(via) Read in Wired, a sociologist, Esther Kim from Yale\u2026 - Near Future Laboratory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(via) Read in Wired, a sociologist, Esther Kim from Yale University was interested in\u00a0the tactics employed by people to keep a free seat in the bus: Avoid eye contact Lean against the window and stretch out your legs. 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