Science Of The Swarm: Crowdsourcing Crowd Behavior
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 - 09:10
in Psychology & Sociology
Sociology is too uncontrolled to be meaningful science but controlled scenarios don't lead to realistic behavior. The Virtual Environment Navigation lab at Brown University thinks they can bridge the gap between them. They have developed a wireless virtual reality system to study a phenomenon that scientists don't yet understand: how pedestrians interact with each other and how those individual behaviors, in turn, generate patterns of crowd movement. It's an everyday experience for all kinds of animals everything from people to ants. read more