Never Alone in the Crowd: A Microscopic Crowd Model Based on Emotional Contagion

This paper presents a system designed to create crisis-simulation that shows the emergence of crowd behavior from individual behaviors, based on the emotional contagion phenomenon. Many studies from psychology and sociology mention this phenomenon but very little was found about what parameters dete...

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Published in2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Vol. 2; pp. 89 - 92
Main Authors Lhommet, Margaux, Lourdeaux, D., Barthès, Jean-Paul
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.08.2011
Subjects
Appraisal
Artificial intelligence
Autonomous agents
Biological system modeling
Cognitive informatics
Computational modeling
Computer simulation
Intelligent agent
Mood
Oceans
Solid modeling
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ISBN9781457713736
145771373X
DOI10.1109/WI-IAT.2011.149

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Summary:This paper presents a system designed to create crisis-simulation that shows the emergence of crowd behavior from individual behaviors, based on the emotional contagion phenomenon. Many studies from psychology and sociology mention this phenomenon but very little was found about what parameters determine it. This paper proposes a model of emotional contagion based on individual personality and relationships. A key contribution of this work is describing a computational mapping from OCEAN personality traits to the strength of, and susceptibility to, emotional contagion. This model is implemented into a multi-agent system where everyone is represented by an emotional, social and cognitive agent.
ISBN:9781457713736
145771373X
DOI:10.1109/WI-IAT.2011.149