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Social comparison in crowds: a short report

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Gal A. Kaminka,

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AAMAS '07: Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

Article No.: 174, Pages 1 - 3

https://doi.org/10.1145/1329125.1329336

Published: 14 May 2007 Publication History

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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. Results from task measures and human judges evaluation shows that the SCT model produces improved results compared to base models from the literature.

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AAMAS '07: Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

May 2007

1585 pages

ISBN:9788190426275

DOI:10.1145/1329125

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Edmund Durfee
University of Michigan
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Kyushu University
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University of South Carolina
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Onn Shehory
IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel

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