@PHDTHESIS{ 2017:37712190,
 	title = {Giving emotional contagion ability to virtual agents in Crowds},
 	year = {2017},
 	url = "http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/7769",
 	abstract = "Crowd simulation models have been playing an important role in computer sciences for a few
 decades now, since pioneer works. At the beginning, agents simulated on crowds behaved all the
 same way, such behaviour being controlled by the same set of rules. In time, simulation models
 evolved and began to incorporate greater variety of behaviours. Crowd simulation models that
 implement different agent behaviours are so-called Heterogeneous Crowd models, opposing to former
 Homogeneous Crowd models. Advances in crowd simulation models that attempt to make agents
 with more realistic human-like behaviours explore heterogeneity of agent behaviours in order to
 achieve overall simulation realism. In general, human behavioural and psychological studies are
 used as base of knowledge to simulate observed human behaviours within virtual agents. Toward
 this direction, later crowd simulation works explore personality traits and emotion models. Some
 other work in the field of emotional virtual agents, researchers are attempting to recreate emotion
 contagion phenomena in small groups of agents, and even studying emotion contagion impact
 between virtual agents and human participants. Under the belief that emotion contagion in virtual
 agents might lead to more realistic behaviours on crowds, this work is focused on recreating emotion
 contagion computational models designed for small groups of agents, and adapting it for crowd
 simulation context.",
 	publisher = {Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul},
 	scholl = {Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Computação},
 	note = {Escola Politécnica}
}