The impact of culture on crowd dynamics: . . .
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@MISC{Fridman_theimpact,
author = {Natalie Fridman and Gal A. Kaminka and Avishay Zilka},
title = {The impact of culture on crowd dynamics: . . .},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
In agent-based social simulation, crowd models are used to generate agent behaviors that should correspond closely to human crowds. Despite significant progress in this area, many existing crowd models do not yet account for important cultural factors in crowd behavior, and even more so, for mixed-culture crowds. Moreover, evaluation of crowd models accounting for culture is particularly difficult, e.g., as controlled experiments are more difficult to set up, due to lack of subjects from different cultures. In this paper we examine the impact of cultural differences on crowd dynamics in pedestrian and evacuation domains. We account for micro-level cultural attributes: personal spaces, speed, pedestrian avoidance side and group formations. We then quantitatively validate the macro-level predictions of an agent-based simulation utilizing these against data from web-cam movies of human pedestrian crowds recorded in five
Keyphrases
crowd model agent-based social simulation agent behavior important cultural factor web-cam movie micro-level cultural attribute different culture significant progress group formation personal space evacuation domain human pedestrian crowd agent-based simulation crowd dynamic macro-level prediction pedestrian avoidance side crowd behavior cultural difference human crowd mixed-culture crowd controlled experiment
