Giving emotional contagion ability to virtual agents in Crowds

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Fortes Neto, Amyr Borges
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Escola Politécnica; Brasil; PUCRS; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Computação
• Palavras-chave em Português: Crowd Simulation Models; Personality Models; Emotion Models; Behavioural Models; Modelos de Simulação de Multidões; Modelos de Personalidade; Modelos de Emoções; Modelos de Comportamento; CIENCIA DA COMPUTACAO::TEORIA DA COMPUTACAO
• Link de acesso: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/7769

Crowd simulation models have been playing an important role in computer sciences for a few decades now, since pioneer works. At the beginning, agents simulated on crowds behaved all the same way, such behaviour being controlled by the same set of rules. In time, simulation models evolved and began to incorporate greater variety of behaviours. Crowd simulation models that implement different agent behaviours are so-called Heterogeneous Crowd models, opposing to former Homogeneous Crowd models. Advances in crowd simulation models that attempt to make agents with more realistic human-like behaviours explore heterogeneity of agent behaviours in order to achieve overall simulation realism. In general, human behavioural and psychological studies are used as base of knowledge to simulate observed human behaviours within virtual agents. Toward this direction, later crowd simulation works explore personality traits and emotion models. Some other work in the field of emotional virtual agents, researchers are attempting to recreate emotion contagion phenomena in small groups of agents, and even studying emotion contagion impact between virtual agents and human participants. Under the belief that emotion contagion in virtual agents might lead to more realistic behaviours on crowds, this work is focused on recreating emotion contagion computational models designed for small groups of agents, and adapting it for crowd simulation context.