TY - GEN
T1 - Simulating crowd evacuation with socio-cultural, cognitive, and emotional elements
AU - van der Wal, C. Natalie
AU - Formolo, Daniel
AU - Robinson, Mark A.
AU - Minkov, Michael
AU - Bosse, Tibor
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In this research, the effects of culture, cognitions, and emotions on crisis management and prevention are analysed. An agent-based crowd evacuation simulation model was created, named IMPACT, to study the evacuation process from a transport hub. To extend previous research, various socio-cultural, cognitive, and emotional factors were modelled, including: language, gender, familiarity with the environment, emotional contagion, prosocial behaviour, falls, group decision making, and compliance. The IMPACT model was validated against data from an evacuation drill using the existing EXODUS evacuation model. Results show that on all measures, the IMPACT model is within or close to the prescribed boundaries, thereby establishing its validity. Structured simulations with the validated model revealed important findings, including: the effect of doors as bottlenecks, social contagion speeding up evacuation time, falling behaviour not affecting evacuation time significantly, and travelling in groups being more beneficial for evacuation time than travelling alone. This research has important practical applications for crowd management professionals, including transport hub operators, first responders, and risk assessors.
AB - In this research, the effects of culture, cognitions, and emotions on crisis management and prevention are analysed. An agent-based crowd evacuation simulation model was created, named IMPACT, to study the evacuation process from a transport hub. To extend previous research, various socio-cultural, cognitive, and emotional factors were modelled, including: language, gender, familiarity with the environment, emotional contagion, prosocial behaviour, falls, group decision making, and compliance. The IMPACT model was validated against data from an evacuation drill using the existing EXODUS evacuation model. Results show that on all measures, the IMPACT model is within or close to the prescribed boundaries, thereby establishing its validity. Structured simulations with the validated model revealed important findings, including: the effect of doors as bottlenecks, social contagion speeding up evacuation time, falling behaviour not affecting evacuation time significantly, and travelling in groups being more beneficial for evacuation time than travelling alone. This research has important practical applications for crowd management professionals, including transport hub operators, first responders, and risk assessors.
KW - Cognition
KW - Crowd behaviour
KW - Crowd management
KW - Crowd simulation
KW - Culture
KW - Emotional contagion
KW - Evacuation
KW - Group-decision making
KW - Social dynamics
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-70647-4_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-70647-4_11
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85036455248
SN - 9783319706467
VL - 10480 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 139
EP - 177
BT - Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXVII
PB - Springer/Verlag
T2 - 2nd Seminar on Quantitative Methods of Group Decision-Making, 2016
Y2 - 25 November 2016 through 25 November 2016
ER -