Many manifestations of interactive human behavior (social and with the environment) are conditioned by emotions, influencing reasoning and other rational decision making activities. The study of the interplay of emotional and non-emotional behaviors (spatial motion) is here faced through the modeling of affective agents where affective states are explicitly measured and represented thanks to the collection of data in a dedicated experiment with humans. During this experiment, we observed that subjects of different ages (focusing on elderly) react differently to particular spatial stimuli (proxemics distance calculation), manifesting a strict relation between distancing and emotional states. The agent-based modeling and simulation of this behavior here presented is a contribution to the comprehension of complex interplays between spatial distances and affective states, amplified by the recent experience of pandemic, where aware distancing become a mandatory and affecting factor of the life, especially for fragile and aged people. The presented modeling approach relies on data collected with an online experiment performed to understand what kind of personal, psychological and situational factors influenced people’s behavior while distancing from others, in particular during the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus of the experiment was in the comparison of different age reactions, involving 80 participants aged between 16 and 92 years.

Gasparini, F., Giltri, M., Briola, D., Dennunzio, A., Bandini, S. (2021). Affectivity and Proxemic Distances: an experimental agent-based modeling approach. In 2nd Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for an Ageing Society, AIxAS 2021 (pp.81-92). CEUR-WS.

Affectivity and Proxemic Distances: an experimental agent-based modeling approach

Gasparini F.;Giltri M.;Briola D.;Dennunzio A.;Bandini S.
2021

Abstract

Many manifestations of interactive human behavior (social and with the environment) are conditioned by emotions, influencing reasoning and other rational decision making activities. The study of the interplay of emotional and non-emotional behaviors (spatial motion) is here faced through the modeling of affective agents where affective states are explicitly measured and represented thanks to the collection of data in a dedicated experiment with humans. During this experiment, we observed that subjects of different ages (focusing on elderly) react differently to particular spatial stimuli (proxemics distance calculation), manifesting a strict relation between distancing and emotional states. The agent-based modeling and simulation of this behavior here presented is a contribution to the comprehension of complex interplays between spatial distances and affective states, amplified by the recent experience of pandemic, where aware distancing become a mandatory and affecting factor of the life, especially for fragile and aged people. The presented modeling approach relies on data collected with an online experiment performed to understand what kind of personal, psychological and situational factors influenced people’s behavior while distancing from others, in particular during the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus of the experiment was in the comparison of different age reactions, involving 80 participants aged between 16 and 92 years.
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affective agent; COVID-19; proxemics; social distancing;
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2nd Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for an Ageing Society, AIxAS 2021 - 29 November 2021
2021
Palumbo, F; Gasparini, F; Fracasso, F
2nd Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for an Ageing Society, AIxAS 2021
2021
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Gasparini, F., Giltri, M., Briola, D., Dennunzio, A., Bandini, S. (2021). Affectivity and Proxemic Distances: an experimental agent-based modeling approach. In 2nd Italian Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for an Ageing Society, AIxAS 2021 (pp.81-92). CEUR-WS.
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