Although social skills are important, to increase these skills is difficult. In this paper we propose an experimental system
that lets a user "feel" the appropriate distance between him/her and another person in order for social interaction to take
place in an optimal setting. We created wearable thermal devices that transmit thermal information to the person wearing them
and linked them to an edutainment system called "Thermo-society". "Thermo-society" is a system that creates thermal sensory
spots around people in an open space. Thermal sensory spots are generated based on the knowledge of proxemics. Through an
experiment, we analyze people’s behavior in the space. As a result of the analysis, we estimate the average distance between
two users in the same group is 1.45meters. We noticed in our experiment that people, when playing Thermo-society, allow strangers
to come in personal distance in 44.4% of the cases, which suggests that our system increases the potential for social interactions.
Keywords Interpersonal Distance - Social Skills Support - Social Communication - Thermal Sensation