کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2426944 1553187 2013 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Spontaneous flocking in human groups
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم دامی و جانورشناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Spontaneous flocking in human groups
چکیده انگلیسی

Flocking behaviour, as a type of self-organised collective behaviour, is described as the spatial formation of groups without global control and explicit inter-individual recruitment signals. It can be observed in many animals, such as bird flocks, shoals or herds of ungulates. Spatial attraction between humans as the central component of flocking behaviour has been simulated in a number of seminal models but it has not been detected experimentally in human groups so far. The two other sub-processes of this self-organised collective movement – collision avoidance and alignment – are excluded or held constant respectively in this study. We created a computer-based, multi-agent game where human players, represented as black dots, moved on a virtual playground. The participants were deprived of social cues about each other and could neither communicate verbally nor nonverbally. They played two games: (1) Single Game, where other players were invisible, and (2) Joint Game, where each player could see players’ positions in a local radius around himself/herself. We found that individuals approached their neighbours spontaneously if their positions were visible, leading to less spatial dispersion of the whole group compared to moving alone. We conclude that human groups show the basic component of flocking behaviour without being explicitly instructed or rewarded to do so.


► We used a multi-agent computer game to assess spontaneous flocking in humans.
► The design varied visual presence of group members on a virtual playground.
► Group members, if visible, could only exchange information via movement.
► Pure visual presence of group members led to flocking behaviour.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Behavioural Processes - Volume 92, January 2013, Pages 6–14
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