Human crowd dynamics are best predicted by a visual neighborhood model, based on the visual fields of each person in the crowd. Birds flock, fish school, and human crowds, too, move in a ...

A new paper from researchers at Swiss university EPFL suggests that between 33% and 46% of distributed crowd workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service appear to have “cheated” when ...

However, the researchers were keen to investigate whether the reality of a human crowd bears out this theory, so they devised an experiment to simulate a busy road crossing.

Human stampedes have occurred at various types of gatherings around the world. Between 1980 and 2022, there were an estimated 440 crowd surge incidents, which led to more than 13,700 deaths and ...

With over 800 lives lost to stampedes since 2003—including the latest IPL celebration tragedy in Bengaluru—India must embrace ...

Navigating a busy crowd is often an awkward experience, but sometimes, it feels much easier than others. In a crowded hallway, people seem to spontaneously organize themselves into lanes, while in ...