Modeling crowd behavior based on social comparison theory: extended abstract

  • Authors:

  • Natalie Fridman;Gal Kaminka

  • Affiliations:

  • The MAVERICK Group, Computer Science Department, Bar Ilan University, Israel;The MAVERICK Group, Computer Science Department, Bar Ilan University, Israel

  • Venue:
  • ACRI'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Modeling crowd behavior is an important challenge for cognitive modelers We propose a novel model of crowd behavior, based on Festinger's Social Comparison Theory, a social psychology theory known and expanded since the early 1950's We propose a concrete framework for SCT, and evaluate its implementations in several crowd behavior scenarios The results show improved performance over existing models.