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    • Human-Computer Interaction
    • Virtual Reality

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    • Simulating realistic human behavior in virtual environments is crucial for immersion.
    • Current crowd simulators struggle with natural group avoidance, breaking the sense of presence.
    • Understanding human decision-making for navigating group obstacles is essential.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop crowd simulation algorithms that accurately model human group avoidance strategies.
    • To determine decision thresholds for choosing between going through or around groups.
    • To integrate findings from human observation into crowd simulation components.

    Main Methods:

    • Applied the Principle of Minimum Energy (PME) to predict avoidance strategies based on group size and density.
    • Conducted virtual reality (VR) experiments to observe real human behavior in simulated group encounters.
    • Analyzed secondary factors like group appearance and relative motion in decision-making.

    Main Results:

    • Quantified decision thresholds for PME, suggesting walkers go around small, dense groups and through large, sparse ones.
    • Validated PME thresholds with VR experiment data, providing empirical support for the model.
    • Identified group appearance and relative motion as significant factors influencing decisions in ambiguous situations.

    Conclusions:

    • The study provides a novel crowd simulation algorithm component informed by VR-based human behavior observation.
    • Guidelines are proposed for integrating these findings into existing crowd simulators to enhance realism.
    • The research demonstrates improved crowd simulation by incorporating human-centric avoidance strategies.