Here are a couple of other things you could watch for in your observations: 1. Which side people pass one another on. You could check the disruption of flow that occurs when someone breaks that unwritten code by having someone purposefully pass on the 'wrong' side. 2. Which direction people are facing, and what the reactions are when someone purposefully faces the 'wrong' way. (Especially interesting on elevators, by the way -- for some reason, a lot of people seem to react more strongly to facing diagonally than to any position aligned to the walls of the elevator. Too bad you're doing public transport, eh?) 3. Absolute disruptions of The Code -- maybe asking another passenger out of the blue if he/she has read a specific book? What happens to the flow of behavior in people not directly effected? Those are just a couple of ideas that came to mind. Your project sounds quite interesting, and I wish you success in it.
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