Understanding the behavior of human crowds is a key step toward safer society and more livable cities. Despite individual variability will single individuals, crowds, from dilute to dense, invariably display remarkable set universal features statistically reproducible behaviors. Here, we review ideas recent progress in employing language tools physics develop deeper understanding about dynamics...

We investigate experimentally the behavior of boids, simple agents following three simple rules of conduct. In crowds these agents can exhibit a collective pattern of movement that imitates flocking animal behavior as well as other types of crowds.

In the present study, we examined whether the detection advantage for negative-face targets in crowds of positive-face distractors over positive-face targets in crowds of negative faces can be explained by differentially efficient distractor rejection. Search Condition A demonstrated more efficient distractor rejection with negative-face targets in positive-face crowds than vice versa. Search C...

Crowds are described as complex adaptive systems in Artificial Intelligence. The generation of crowd in real-time simulations is beyond the manual design capability. In this paper, we present an integrated animation framework for simulating the adaptive movement behaviours of crowds on large terrains. A simulation system that is developed based on the framework can be used as a powerful animati...

Crowds of non-player characters improve the game-play experiences of open-world video-games. Grouping is a common phenomenon of crowds and plays an important role in crowd behaviour. Recent crowd simulation research focuses on group modelling in pedestrian crowds and game-designers have argued that the design of non-player characters should capture and exploit the relationship between character...