Heterogeneous crowd behaviors simulation: a physiological perspective

Most of existing approaches to simulate heterogeneous crowd behaviors focus on the aspect of psychology. From a human's physiological characteristics perspective, this paper presents a method to generate different crowd behaviors. We choose RVO library as navigation method and four basic physiological characteristics including gender, age, weight, and health, and determine a mapping from a single physiological feature to RVO parameters through user studies and statistical method. Then by combining these four single characteristics, a comprehensive mapping can generate various parameters for agents to exhibit heterogeneous behaviors. Through a number of simulation and validation experiments, we demonstrate the proposed method is valid and efficient.