soliciting help for crowd - population modeling effort

[jpgirard]

Greetings,

I am bidding a new project in the "physical crowds" domain, and am looking
to collaborate with someone
with a background in sociology/behavior/psychology.

We will be expanding our current "low level" crowd model,
to include the concept of interactions with the crowd changing with each
interaction.
As a very simple example, very repressive action against a crowd might
result in a more or less aggressive crowd next time.
This might be done by adding a "high-level" model over the physical crowd
model, or by making the
agents in the model more adaptive.  Some concept of non-local mass
communication effect needs to be included.

Something like Epstein's Grievance, Legitimacy, and Hardship model (but with
updating legitimacy and hardship?) or Reicher's work on group identity is
what we are looking for help on.

The approach doesn't need to be perfect (obviously), but needs to have some
behavioral/sociological research behind it.


Ideas?
Collaborators?



thanks,
Jim

jpgirard at thinkingmetal.com

[Tom Johnson]

Jim:

I went to www.googlescholar.com and entered "crowd behavior" +chicago +1968


(I was thinking of the Demo convention.  Perhaps some of the elders on the
list were actually at that police riot, which took various forms during
various days.

Many interesting results, judging from the titles of the papers.  Many in
JSTOR.  Let me know if you need a leg up on getting into JSTOR.

-Tom

On 8/9/07, jpgirard <jpgirard at thinkingmetal.com> wrote:

>
>
> Greetings,
>
> I am bidding a new project in the "physical crowds" domain, and am looking
> to collaborate with someone
> with a background in sociology/behavior/psychology.
>
> We will be expanding our current "low level" crowd model,
> to include the concept of interactions with the crowd changing with each
> interaction.
> As a very simple example, very repressive action against a crowd might
> result in a more or less aggressive crowd next time.
> This might be done by adding a "high-level" model over the physical crowd
> model, or by making the
> agents in the model more adaptive.  Some concept of non-local mass
> communication effect needs to be included.
>
> Something like Epstein's Grievance, Legitimacy, and Hardship model (but
> with
> updating legitimacy and hardship?) or Reicher's work on group identity is
> what we are looking for help on.
>
> The approach doesn't need to be perfect (obviously), but needs to have
> some
> behavioral/sociological research behind it.
>
>
> Ideas?
> Collaborators?
>
>
>
> thanks,
> Jim
>
> jpgirard at thinkingmetal.com
>
>
>
>
>
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