NDLI: Towards a virtual environment for capturing behavior in cultural crowds

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Lala, D. Thovuttikul, S. Nishida, T.
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Author affiliation: Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (Lala, D.; Thovuttikul, S.; Nishida, T.)
Abstract	Cultural behavior is an area of research that can allow us to further cross-cultural understanding, and is now starting to integrate itself within the field of information technology. One domain that expresses these behaviors is inside a crowd, however the analysis of micro-level crowd behavior is impractical in a real-world setting as passive observation has limitations on understanding true behavior. By using a virtual environment to simulate a crowd situation, measuring an individual's in-crowd behavior becomes feasible. This paper introduces the development of a virtual environment which enables the creation of different types of cultural crowds with which the user may interact. The parameterization of the crowds is based on the famous cultural dimensions put forward by Hofstede. One of the cultural dimensions, individualism/collectivism, was mapped to agent characteristics during a series of simulations and it was found that two distinct types of crowd could be generated. For the dimensions have not yet been examined, the proposed environment provides an ideal opportunity to address this gap in the research as well as becoming a tool with which other types of experimentation can be performed.
Starting Page	310
Ending Page	315
File Size	582530
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781457715389
e-ISBN	9781457715396
DOI	10.1109/ICDIM.2011.6093362
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-09-26
Publisher Place	Australia
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Legged locomotion Uncertainty Humans Virtual environments Cultural differences Collision avoidance
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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