An initial study to assess the perceived realism of agent crowd behaviour in a virtual city

Stuart O'Connor; Fotis Liarokapis; Christopher Peters

doi:10.1109/VS-GAMES.2013.6624220

An initial study to assess the perceived realism of agent crowd behaviour in a virtual city

Stuart O'Connor
, Fotis Liarokapis
, Christopher Peters

Coventry University

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

4 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

This paper examines the development of a crowd simulation in a virtual city, and a perceptual experiment to identify features of behaviour which can be linked to perceived realism. This research is expected to feedback into the development processes of simulating inhabited locations, by identifying the key features which need to be implemented to achieve more perceptually realistic crowd behaviour. The perceptual experimentation methodologies presented can be adapted and potentially utilised to test other types of crowd simulation, for application within computer games or more specific simulations such as for urban planning or health and safety purposes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2013 5th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2013
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9781479909650
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-GAMES.2013.6624220
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	2013 5th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2013 - Bournemouth, United Kingdom Duration: 11 Sept 2013 → 13 Sept 2013

Conference

Conference	2013 5th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2013
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Bournemouth
Period	11/09/13 → 13/09/13

Keywords

agent behavior
artificial intelligence
crowd simulation
perceptual studies
virtual environments

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Science Applications

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An initial study to assess the perceived realism of agent crowd behaviour in a virtual city. / O'Connor, Stuart; Liarokapis, Fotis; Peters, Christopher.
2013 5th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2013. IEEE, 2013. 6624220.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

O'Connor, S, Liarokapis, F & Peters, C 2013, An initial study to assess the perceived realism of agent crowd behaviour in a virtual city. in 2013 5th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2013., 6624220, IEEE, 2013 5th International Conference on Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, VS-GAMES 2013, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, 11/09/13. https://doi.org/10.1109/VS-GAMES.2013.6624220

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