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Natalie Fridman and Gal A. Kaminka.
Comparing Human and Synthetic Group Behaviors: A Model Based on Social Psychology. In International Conference
on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM-09), 2009.
A previous version of this paper appeared in the proceedings of the Multi-Agent
Based Simulation (MABS) workshop at AAMAS-2009.
Existing models of group behavior, in a variety of fields, leavemany open challenges. In particular, existing models often focusonly on a specific phenomenon (e.g. flocking, pedestrianmovement), and thus must be switched depending on the goals of thesimulation. In contrast, we investigate a general cognitive modelof simulating group behaviors, based on Festinger's SocialComparison Theory (SCT), a prominent social psychology theory. Inprevious work, we have shown SCT covers a variety of pedestrianmovement phenomena. In this paper we present evidence for SCT'sgenerality by describing the use of the SCT model (using the Soarcognitive architecture) in generation of imitational behavior inloosely-coupled groups. Since the imitational behavior does nothave clear standards of evaluation, we propose a method for such evaluation. Based onexperiments with human subjects, we show that SCT generates behaviormore in-tune with human crowd behavior.
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abstract = {Existing models of group behavior, in a variety of fields, leave
many open challenges. In particular, existing models often focus
only on a specific phenomenon (e.g. flocking, pedestrian
movement), and thus must be switched depending on the goals of the
simulation. In contrast, we investigate a general cognitive model
of simulating group behaviors, based on Festinger's Social
Comparison Theory (SCT), a prominent social psychology theory. In
previous work, we have shown SCT covers a variety of pedestrian
movement phenomena. In this paper we present evidence for SCT's
generality by describing the use of the SCT model (using the Soar
cognitive architecture) in generation of imitational behavior in
loosely-coupled groups. Since the imitational behavior does not
have clear standards of evaluation, we
propose a method for such evaluation. Based on
experiments with human subjects, we show that SCT generates behavior
more in-tune with human crowd behavior.},
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