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2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Microscopic Model and the Panicking Ball-Bearing
Authors : Colin Marc Henein, Tony White
Published in: Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2008
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Prominent microscopic models simulate panic (which has been described as a myth) allowing unwarranted simplifying assumptions that people are irrational, non-deliberative and interchangeable. While these assumptions can be remedied by increasing the behavioral repertoire of modelled individuals, large cognitive architectures would stifle a model’s power to explain emergent crowd effects. We propose the microscopic human factor (MHF) approach that increases behavioral repertoire without compromise to the elegant simplicity from which the models derive their explanatory power.