Abstrakt
Steering techniques are widely used for navigation of single agents or crowds and flocks. Steerings also have the potential to coordinate movement of human-like agents in very small groups so that the resulting behavior appears socially believable, but this dimension is less explored.
Here, we present one such "social" steering, the Walk Along steering for navigating a couple of agents to reach a certain place together. The results of a believability study with 26 human subjects who compared the new steering to the known Leader Following steering in eight different scenarios suggest the superiority of the Walk Along steering in social situations.