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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Coucke, Nicolas
• Heinrich, Mary Katherine
• Cleeremans, Axel
• Dorigo, Marco

Titel

HuGoS: a virtual environment for studying collective human behavior from a swarm intelligence perspective

Ist Teil von

• Swarm intelligence, 2021-12, Vol.15 (4), p.339-376

Ort / Verlag

New York: Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Swarm intelligence studies self-organized collective behavior resulting from interactions between individuals, typically in animals and artificial agents. Some studies from cognitive science have also demonstrated self-organization mechanisms in humans, often in pairs. Further research into the topic of human swarm intelligence could provide a better understanding of new behaviors and larger human collectives. This requires studies with multiple human participants in controlled experiments in a wide variety of scenarios, where a rich scope of possible interactions can be isolated and captured. In this paper, we present HuGoS—‘Humans Go Swarming’—a multi-user virtual environment implemented using the Unity game development platform, as a comprehensive tool for experimentation in human swarm intelligence. We demonstrate the functionality of HuGoS with naïve participants in a browser-based implementation, in a coordination task involving collective decision-making, messaging and signaling, and stigmergy. By making HuGoS available as open-source software, we hope to facilitate further research in the field of human swarm intelligence.