Introducing Agent Personality in Crowd Simulation Improves Social Presence and Experienced Realism in Immersive VR.

Convincing crowd behavior simulation is becoming essential in many application domains, including video games, cinematography, urban planning, safety simulations, and training. In this paper, we propose a novel and lightweight mesoscopic system for personality-based crowd simulation in immersive virtual reality (iVR). We use the Big Five personality framework, also known as OCEAN, to model a synthetic personality for each autonomous agent.