Emotion in the evacuation process

Abstract

OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. This is an author-deposited version published in : http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/ Eprints ID : 18865The contribution was presented at ABSTRACTRecently the key role of emotions in decision-making process has been highlighted. In this article, we focus on fear-related emotions and their positive impact on the survival capabilities of human beings in case of crisis situation. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the impact of emotion on agents in the evacuation process; we only focus here on emotions and not on the evacuation process itself. We formalize the influence of three factors (decay, environment, contagion) on agents emotion and explore the influence of each of them. The emotion intensity of agents will be tested in case of moving or without moving. We will make some experiments to estimate the impact of three coefficients of decay, environment, contagion on the emotion intensity of groups such as max, min, mean and standard deviation value. The entire theoretical model has been implemented in the GAMA simulation platform.

Model considering panic emotion and personality traits for crowd evacuation

“…[41] in many ways, we obtain the similar results to those in Ref. [41], i.e., enhancing the influence of emotion decay will benefit the evacuation process. Hence, the work in this section will be a good supplement to Ref.…”

“…Though the model and simulation process in the present work are quite different from those in Ref. [41] in many ways, we obtain the similar results to those in Ref. [41], i.e., enhancing the influence of emotion decay will benefit the evacuation process.…”

“…For example, pedestrians will reduce their panic level after a period of self-regulation and environmental adaptation. [41] Besides, pedestrian emotion will change significantly with the change of position, for example, panic level will be greatly attenuated when pedestrians approach to the exit. Therefore, panic pedestrians may become normal through emotion decay.…”

“…It is worth noting that the emotion decay is also considered in Ref. [41], where it was supposed that the emotion intensity will decrease over time without any stimulus in their model. Compared with the model in Ref.…”

“…Compared with the model in Ref. [41], the model in the present paper considered not only the time influence, i.e., emotion self-decay way, but also the space influence, i.e., exit emotion decay way. Though the model and simulation process in the present work are quite different from those in Ref.…”