First Steps Towards a Social Comparison Model of Crowds

Natalie Fridman; Gal A. Kaminka; Meytal Traub

First Steps Towards a Social Comparison Model of Crowds

Natalie Fridman, Gal A. Kaminka, Meytal Traub

Bar-Ilan University

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Abstract

Modeling crowd behavior is an important challenge for cognitive modelers. Unfortunately, existing computational models are typically not tied to cognitive science theories, and are rarely evaluated against human crowd data. We investigate a general cognitive model of crowd behavior, based on Festinger’s Social Comparison Theory (SCT). We evaluate the SCT model on general pedestrian movement, and validate the model against human pedestrian behavior. The results show that SCT generates behavior more in-tune with human crowd behavior then existing non-cognitive models. Moreover, we examine the impact of the different SCT model components on the generated pedestrian behavior.

Original language	English
Pages	246-251
Number of pages	6
State	Published - 2009
Event	9th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, ICCM 2009 - Duration: 24 Jul 2009 → 26 Jul 2009

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Conference	9th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, ICCM 2009
Period	24/07/09 → 26/07/09

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Acknowledgements.This research was supported in part by EOARD Grant #083065, and by IMOD.

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European Office of Aerospace Research and Development	083065

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