@COMMENT This file was generated by bib2html.pl version 0.94 @COMMENT written by Patrick Riley @COMMENT This file came from Gal A. Kaminka's publication pages at @COMMENT http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/publications/ @InCollection{iva07, author = {Natalie Fridman and Gal A. Kaminka}, title = {Modeling Imitational Behavior via Social Comparison Theory (Extended Abstract) }, booktitle = {Intelligent Virtual Agents 2007 }, pages = {377--378}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag}, year = {2007}, abstract = {Modeling crowd behaviors is an important challenge for intelligent virtual agents. We propose a general cognitive model of simulating crowd behaviors, based on Festinger's Social Comparison Theory (SCT), a prominent social psychology theory. We present the use of the SCT model (using the Soar cognitive architecture) in the generation of imitational behavior in loosely-coupled groups and show that SCT generates behavior more in-tune with human crowd behavior. }, wwwnote = {}, editor = {C. Pelachaud and J. Martin and E. Andre and G. Chollet and K. Karpouzis and D. Pele}, volume = {4722}, series = {{LNAI}}, }