People spend considerable time on digital media, and are thus often exposed to
expressions of emotion by other people. This exposure can lead their own emotion …

Emotions are known to spread among people, a process known as emotion contagion. Both
positive and negative emotions are believed to be contagious, but the mass spread of …

Since the first edition of this book in 2007, there has been a fast evolution in Virtual Reality.
Palmer Luckey designed a prototype for what would become the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality …

Numerous research efforts have been conducted to simulate the crowd movements, while
relatively few of them are specifically focused on multihazard situations. In this paper, we …

The emotional contagion of netizens is an important factor that accelerates the spread of
rumors, and it is also key to the effectiveness of rumor refutation. Based on the existing …

To develop a realistic simulator for autonomous vehicle testing, the simulation of various
scenarios that may occur near vehicles in the real world is necessary. In this paper, we …

Personality computing and affective computing, where the recognition of personality traits is
essential, have gained increasing interest and attention in many research areas recently …

This paper aims to discuss the past, evolution, and new perspectives in crowd simulation.
Many work have been produced and published in this area that was launched …

Increasing attention is being given to the modeling and simulation of traffic flow and crowd
movement, two phenomena that both deal with interactions between pedestrians and cars in …

Simulation emergency evacuation is an important part in the field of safety engineering,
affective computing plays a vital role in the popularization of artificial intelligence, computer …