Social group behaviour of triads. Dependence on purpose and gender

Authors

  • Francesco Zanlungo ATR IRC, Kyoto, Japan
  • Zeynep Yücel Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
  • Takayuki Kanda ATR IRC, KyotoKyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17815/CD.2020.41

Keywords:

group behaviour, social relations, dyads, triads

Abstract

We analysed a set of uninstructed pedestrian trajectories automatically tracked in a public area, and we asked a human coder to assess their group relationships. For those pedestrians who belong to the groups, we asked the coder to identify their apparent purpose of visit to the tracking area and apparent gender. We studied the quantitative dependence of the group dynamics on such properties in the case of triads (three people groups) and compared them to the two pedestrian group case (dyads), studied in a previous work. We found that the group velocity strongly depends on relation and gender for both triads and dyads, while the influence of these properties on spatial structure of groups is less clear in the triadic case. We discussed the relevance of these results to the modelling of pedestrian and crowd dynamics, and examined the possibility of the future works on this subject.

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Published

27.03.2020

How to Cite

Zanlungo, F., Yücel, Z., & Kanda, T. (2020). Social group behaviour of triads. Dependence on purpose and gender. Collective Dynamics, 5, 118–125. https://doi.org/10.17815/CD.2020.41

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Proceedings of Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2018