An Agent-Based Model for the Interplay of Information and Emotion in Social Diffusion

Author

Hoogendoorn, Mark ; Treur, Jan ; Van Der Wal, C. Natalie ; Van Wissen, Arlette

Author_Institution

Dept. of Artificial Intell., Vrije Univ. Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

Aug. 31 2010-Sept. 3 2010

Firstpage

439

Lastpage

444

Abstract

The spread of information and emotion within groups is studied in models of social diffusion. Evidence has been found that the emotional states of humans affect their information processing abilities, and hence, may affect the spread of information as well. This paper introduces an agent-based model that simulates the spread of information and emotion among a group of agents. The model takes both the influence of emotions upon the spread of information and the influence of information on emotions into account. The approach is exemplified by means of a case study in the domain of emergency evacuation.

Keywords

multi-agent systems; social sciences computing; agent-based model; emergency evacuation; human emotion; information processing; social diffusion; Conferences; Intelligent agent; agent modeling; computational modeling; emotion contagion; group processes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT), 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8482-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4191-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WI-IAT.2010.181

Filename

5614783