Intrinsic group behaviour: Dependence of pedestrian dyad dynamics on principal social and personal features.

ABSTRACT: Being determined by human social behaviour, pedestrian group dynamics may depend on "intrinsic properties" such as the purpose of the pedestrians, their personal relation, gender, age, and body size. In this work we investigate the dynamical properties of pedestrian dyads (distance, spatial formation and velocity) by analysing a large data set of automatically tracked pedestrian trajectories in an unconstrained "ecological" setting (a shopping mall), whose apparent physical and social group properties have been analysed by three different human coders. We observed that females walk slower and closer than males, that workers walk faster, at a larger distance and more abreast than leisure oriented people, and that inter-group relation has a strong effect on group structure, with couples walk

SUBMITTER: Zanlungo F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5667819 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature