A Virtual Reality Framework for Human-Virtual Crowd Interaction Studies

In this paper we developed a generic framework for authoring virtual crowds with minimal effort. Our intention is to providing to the virtual reality community a framework that allows easy to author virtual crowd scenarios that can be used for human-crowd interaction studies. From previous studies we have conducted, we realized the need of such a framework as it facilitates quicker setup and testing as well as standardizes the measurements and the interaction with virtual crowds. The framework includes assets with realistic human models, and configurations for crowd behavior composition.