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Jamie Webster¹, Martyn Amos¹

¹Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK.

Royal Society Open Science

|September 3, 2020

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Human crowd simulations are not reliably distinguishable from real crowds by non-experts. While people can tell them apart side-by-side, they struggle to classify them accurately, indicating a gap in current crowd behavior models.

Keywords:

Turing test crowd simulation

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Area of Science:

Computational social science
Human-computer interaction
Agent-based modeling

Background:

Crowd simulation accuracy and believability are crucial for applications in urban planning, security, and understanding collective behavior.
Assessing simulation fidelity requires evaluating both objective accuracy and subjective plausibility.
Existing crowd models may not capture the nuances of real human crowd dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the accuracy and believability of crowd simulations using a 'Turing test' approach.
To determine if human observers can distinguish between simulated and real crowds.
To identify discrepancies between idealized perceptions of crowds and actual observed behavior.

Main Methods:

Conducted two studies with a total of 540 student volunteers (384 and 156 participants).
Presented participants with side-by-side and individual movie clips of real and simulated crowds.
Assessed participants' ability to distinguish and classify crowds as real or simulated.

Main Results:

Non-specialist observers could reliably distinguish between real and simulated crowds when presented side-by-side.
Classification accuracy was poor, not significantly better than random guessing, even when crowds were presented individually.
Untrained individuals hold idealized perceptions of crowd behavior that do not align with real-world observations.

Conclusions:

Current crowd simulation models may lack essential collective behaviors needed for greater realism.
Human observers' ability to distinguish does not equate to accurate classification, highlighting a gap in perceived vs. actual crowd dynamics.
Findings suggest a need to refine crowd simulation frameworks based on empirical observations of collective human behavior.