We describe a system designed to simulate human behaviour in crowds in real-time, concentrating particularly on collision avoidance. The algorithms used are based heavily on psychology research, and the ways this has been used are explained in detail. We argue that this approach gives better results than conventional methods, and detail further work to be done.

Extracting redundancies in the data is the main purpose of unsupervised learning and estimating the covariance using Hebbian learning is a widespread way to achieve this. However, Hebbian learning only leads to the extraction of between-unit covariance. Because most associative memories use distributed representations, it would be more useful to extract the covariance of states. Yet, this opera...

We present an on-line computational model that aims to bridge the gap between formal and psychological studies of word learning. Like the model of Fazly et al. (2010), our model incrementally processes input data rather than using iterative optimization to derive the lexicon over the entire corpus of learning instances (Yu & Ballard 2007, Frank et al. 2009). Unlike Fazly et al. (2010), our mode...

Race is one of the most common variables in the social sciences, used to draw correlations between racial groups and numerous other important variables such as education, health care outcomes, aptitude tests, wealth, employment and so forth. But where concern with race once reflected the view that races were biologically real, many, if not most, contemporary social scientists have abandoned the...

Interpersonal attraction may be shaped by (a) one's psychological distance from a target (the subjective experience that a target is close to or far from the self) and (b) the perceived standing of a target on a trait relative to the self (as better or worse than the self). We propose that when evaluating a psychologically distant target, individuals may rely on abstract schemas (e.g., the desi...

Today, the topic of psychologically safe communication skills among adolescents has been little studied, so purpose study is to identify level in a children and youth center. The correlations indicators quality interpersonal with criteria educational environment were established using method Pearson. results show that at middle have significantly significant between qualities environment, such ...