Emotional Contagion Model for Group Evacuation Simulation
Authored by Benoit Gaudou, Vinh Ho Tuong, Xuan-Hien Ta, Dominique Longin
Date Published: 2017
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GAMA
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Abstract
The key role of emotions in decision-making process of human beings has
been highlighted recently. Our research focuses on fear-related emotions
and their positive impact on the survival capabilities of human beings
in case of crisis situations. In this paper, we proposed a new model of
emotional contagion based on some main findings in social psychology.
This model was formalized mathematically, implemented and tested in the
GAMA agent-based simulation platform in the context of evacuation
simulation. We assessed experimentally the impact of three factors
(emotion decay, environment, neighbors' emotional contagion) on emotion
dynamics at individual and group levels. The experimental results allow
us to understand the emotional contagion of agent group in several
scenarios. The proposed model will help us to better study the impact of
emotional contagion on evacuation safety in evacuation simulation. The
entire theoretical model has been implemented in the simulation platform
GAMA.
Tags
Agent-based model
Simulation
Agents
emotion
Emergency
Gama platform
Crisis situation
Evacuation process