Emotional Decision Making in Large Crowds

Alexei Sharpanskykh, Kashif Zia

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Abstract

Currently it is widely recognised that emotions of people influence their decisions. In this paper the role of emotions in social decision making in large technically assisted crowds is investigated. For this a formal, computational model is proposed, which integrates existing neurological and cognitive theories of affective decision making. Based on this model several variants of a large scale crowd evacuation scenario with technically assisted agents were simulated. By analysis of the simulation results it was established that spread of emotions in a crowd increases resistance of agent groups to opinion changes and supports continuity of decision making in a group with technically assisted agents.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS'12
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Number of pages10
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2012

Fields of science

  • 102 Computer Sciences
  • 102009 Computer simulation
  • 102013 Human-computer interaction
  • 102019 Machine learning
  • 102020 Medical informatics
  • 102021 Pervasive computing
  • 102022 Software development
  • 102025 Distributed systems
  • 202017 Embedded systems
  • 211902 Assistive technologies
  • 211912 Product design

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