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K. H. Law, "Incorporation of Human Behavior and Social Interactions in Design Simulations - with Applications to Egress Analysis and Design", Stanford Design Thinking Research Program Community-Building Workshop. Stanford, CA. February 3, 2009.

Publications

Dissertation

M. L. Chu, A Computational Framework Incorporating Human and Social Behaviors for Occupant-centric Egress Simulation, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, January 2015.

Conference papers

M. L. Chu, P. Parigi, J.-C. Latombe, and K. H. Law, "Modeling social behaviors in an evacuation simulator", 27th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2014) . Texas, US, May 26-28, 2014.

M. L. Chu, P. Parigi, J.-C. Latombe, and K. H. Law, "SAFEgress: A Flexible Platform to Study the Effect of Human and Social Behaviors on Egress Performance", Proceedings of the 5th annual Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD). Florida, US, April 13-16, 2014.

M. L. Chu and K. H. Law, "Modeling Social Groups and Roles in Egress Simulation", Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Human Behaviour in Fire. Cambridge, UK, September 19-21, 2012.

M. L. Chu, X. Pan, and K. H. Law, " Incorporating Social Behaviors in Egress Simulation," Proceedings of 2011 Computing in Civil Engineering Workshop, Miami, Florida , June 19-22, 2011.

Journal papers

M. L. Chu, P. Parigi, J.-C. Latombe, and K. H. Law, "Simulating individual, group, and crowd behaviors in building egress", Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International. (submitted)

M. L. Chu, P. Parigi, J.-C. Latombe, and K. H. Law, "Modeling social behaviors in an evacuation simulator", Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds , 25(3-4), pp. 375–384, 2014

M. L. Chu, P. Parigi, J.-C. Latombe, and K. H. Law, "Simulating Effects of Signage, Groups and Crowds on Emergent Evacuation Patterns", AI & Society, 2014. DOI 10.1007/s00146-014-0557-4

M. L. Chu and K. H. Law, "A Computational Framework Incorporating Human Behaviors for Egress Simulations", ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 27(6), pp.699–707, 2013 (Best JCCE paper for 2013 Award).

Technical Reports

M. L. Chu, P. Parigi, J.-C. Latombe, and K. H. Law," SAFEgress: A Flexible Platform to Study the Effect of Human and Social Behaviors on Egress Performance", CIFE Technical Report #TR216, November 2013.

M. L. Chu, K. H. Law, and J. - C. Latombe, " A Computational Framework for Egress Analysis with Realistic Human Behaviors", CIFE Technical Report #TR209, September 2012.