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This paper presents a ,theoretical analysis of the concept of privacy which emphasizes its role as an interpersonal boundary control process. The paper also analyzes mechanisms and dynamics of privacy, including verbal and paraverbal behavior, personal space, territorial behavior, and culturally based responses. Finally, several functions of privacy are proposed, including regulation of interpersonal interaction, self-other definitional processes, and self-identity. The concept of privacy appears in the literature of several disciplines-psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, law, architecture, and the design professions. One group of definitions of the term emphasizes seclusion, withdrawal, and avoidance of interaction with others. For example:
Irwin Altman (1976) studied this question.