Calculating Movement An Agent Based Modeling System for Historical Studies

Calculating Movement An Agent Based Modeling System for Historical Studies

Wendell, Augustus; Ozludil, Burcak; López-Salas, Estefanía

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Simulating human movement and actions in historical spaces/landscapes is acomplex task. It requires not only the recreation of spaces that no longer exist,but more challenging the recovery of actions performed in the past. These actionscan provide insights into important aspects such as how people inhabited, used,perceived, lived, sensed, and shaped these spaces. This research aims to show aframework to approach studying human movement, using an Agent BasedModeling (ABM) system. Our ABM tool has methods for creating, managing, andchoreographing the movement of agents through 3D models. A number ofiterative tests, both agent-to-agent and agent-to-model, enable the system toproduce scholarly quantitative data in historical spaces. We highlight the use ofthis system through two case studies, one at an architectural scale and the otherat landscape scale.

Simulating human movement and actions in historical spaces/landscapes is acomplex task. It requires not only the recreation of spaces that no longer exist,but more challenging the recovery of actions performed in the past. These actionscan provide insights into important aspects such as how people inhabited, used,perceived, lived, sensed, and shaped these spaces. This research aims to show aframework to approach studying human movement, using an Agent BasedModeling (ABM) system. Our ABM tool has methods for creating, managing, andchoreographing the movement of agents through 3D models. A number ofiterative tests, both agent-to-agent and agent-to-model, enable the system toproduce scholarly quantitative data in historical spaces. We highlight the use ofthis system through two case studies, one at an architectural scale and the otherat landscape scale.

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DOI: 10.5151/proceedings-ecaadesigradi2019_393

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Wendell, Augustus; Ozludil, Burcak; López-Salas, Estefanía; "Calculating Movement An Agent Based Modeling System for Historical Studies", p-541-550. In: Proceedings of 37 eCAADe and XXIII SIGraDi Joint Conference, “Architecture in the Age of the 4Th Industrial Revolution”, Porto 2019, Sousa, José Pedro; Henriques, Gonçalo Castro; Xavier, João Pedro (eds.). São Paulo: Blucher, 2019.
ISSN 23186968, DOI 10.5151/proceedings-ecaadesigradi2019_393