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Characterization of pedestrian contact interaction trajectories
Jaeyoung Kwak, Michael H. Lees, Wentong Cai
A spreading process can be observed when a particular behavior, substance, or disease spreads through a population over time in social and biological systems. It is widely believed…
Influence of committed volunteers on helping behavior in emergency evacuations
Jaeyoung Kwak, Michael H. Lees, Wentong Cai +2
We study how the presence of committed volunteers influences the collective helping behavior in emergency evacuation scenarios. In this study, committed volunteers do not change th…
Modeling Helping Behavior in Emergency Evacuations Using Volunteer's Dilemma Game
Jaeyoung Kwak, Michael H Lees, Wentong Cai +1
People often help others who are in trouble, especially in emergency evacuation situations. For instance, during the 2005 London bombings, it was reported that evacuees helped inju…
Estimating horizontal movement performance of patient beds and the impact on emergency evacuation time
Jaeyoung Kwak, Michael H. Lees, Wentong Cai +2
Emergency evacuation of patients from a hospital can be challenging in the event of a fire. Most emergency evacuation studies are based on the assumption that pedestrians are ambul…
Quantitative Comparison Between Crowd Models for Evacuation Planning and Evaluation
Vaisagh Viswanathan, Chong Eu Lee, Michael Harold Lees +2
Crowd simulation is rapidly becoming a standard tool for evacuation planning and evaluation. However, the many crowd models in the literature are structurally different, and few ha…