TY - GEN
T1 - Comparing human and synthetic group behaviors: A model based on social psychology
AU - Fridman, Natalie
AU - Kaminka, Gal A.
N1 - Place of conference:Germany
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Existing models of group behavior, in a variety of fields, leave
many open challenges. In particular, existing models often focus
only on a specific phenomenon (e.g. flocking, pedestrian
movement), and thus must be switched depending on the goals
of the simulation. In contrast, we investigate a general cognitive
model of simulating group behaviors, based on Festinger's
Social Comparison Theory (SCT), a prominent social psychology
theory. In previous work, we have show SCT covers a
variety of pedestrian movement phenomena. In this paper we
present evidence for SCT's generality by describing the use
of the SCT model (using the Soar cognitive architecture) in
generation of imitational behavior in loosely-coupled groups.
Since the imitational behavior does not have clear standards of
evaluation, we propose a method for such evaluation. Based on
experiments with human subjects, we show that SCT generates
behavior more in-tune with human crowd behavior
AB - Existing models of group behavior, in a variety of fields, leave
many open challenges. In particular, existing models often focus
only on a specific phenomenon (e.g. flocking, pedestrian
movement), and thus must be switched depending on the goals
of the simulation. In contrast, we investigate a general cognitive
model of simulating group behaviors, based on Festinger's
Social Comparison Theory (SCT), a prominent social psychology
theory. In previous work, we have show SCT covers a
variety of pedestrian movement phenomena. In this paper we
present evidence for SCT's generality by describing the use
of the SCT model (using the Soar cognitive architecture) in
generation of imitational behavior in loosely-coupled groups.
Since the imitational behavior does not have clear standards of
evaluation, we propose a method for such evaluation. Based on
experiments with human subjects, we show that SCT generates
behavior more in-tune with human crowd behavior
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M3 - Conference contribution
BT - International conference on cognitive modeling ICCM-09
ER -