Stephanie Huerre_CASA_2010

Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development is developing a 3-D agent-based crowd simulation tool for collaboration amongst designers, engineers and operations managers. The autonomous agents in our tool model the realistic behaviors of theme park guests with non-goal driven decision-making, and dynamic queuing, crowding, and grouping behaviors. Agents are based on the same universal logic. However, unique agent behaviors emerge from the variation in parameter settings for population type, personality, and feelings. Validation methods based on visual comparisons and real world data are being used to build and refine the tool.