Title

Incorporating "Big Five" Personality Factors Into Crowd Simulation

Keywords

Big Five; Crowd simulation; HMFV; Optical flow; Personality interaction

Abstract

The simulation and modeling of crowd behavior has become an active research area in recent years. This area of research has been applied to a wide variety of domains such as military, education, training, entertainment and human factors analysis. Most crowd simulations do not consider the effects of cultural or personality diversity within the crowd. We incorporate these effects by modifying the social force terms within the Helbing-Molnar-Farjas-Vicsek (HMFV) crowd model implemented within the MASON (Multi-Agent Simulation of Neighborhoods) environment. The modification are based on the "Big Five" personality factors (neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness) which have been found to be applicable across cultures. In addition to detailing the modifications, this paper reports on comparison of the Big Five modifications of the HMFV model to videos of crowds. An expert panel of behavioral scientists found the modified HMFV simulations to be realistic models. In addition a preliminary version of a technique used based on optical flow analysis of the videos showed good correlation.

Publication Date

12-1-2008

Publication Title

20th European Modeling and Simulation Symposium, EMSS 2008

Number of Pages

534-536

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84871584170 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84871584170

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