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Comment on Follow my eyes! Information transfer in human crowds by Perché guardiamo quel che guardano gli altri - Allnewz.it - Scienze

Perché guardiamo quel che guardano gli altri - Allnewz.it - Scienze — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:44:34 +0000

[...] molto complessa che ha coinvolto oltre tremila persone, durata più di due anni (qui il video).Due gli esperimenti svolti, per tentare di rispondere anche a questi interrogativi: perché [...]

Comment on Pheromone trail networks in ants by Komplexe Welt blog

Komplexe Welt blog — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:16:08 +0000

Exciting research and an instructive example of how complexity can arise from the interaction of a huge number of simple elements. When will we see ants as traffic wardens?

Comment on Pheromone trail networks in ants by Komplexität ohne Führung, Teil 1 | komplexe welt

Komplexität ohne Führung, Teil 1 | komplexe welt — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:57:44 +0000

[...] A time lapse video of ants exploring a round vivarium – random walk, initially, and then laying down tracks like highways. Experiments by the Couzin lab. [...]

Comment on Iain Couzin among the 2010 “Brilliant 10″ by Dan kang

Dan kang — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 02:00:37 +0000

Congratulations lain. You really deserve this honor. We had a couple of classes together. I don’t know if you remember me, but i just wanted to congratulate you.
- Dan Kang

Comment on Research by Research and the tools we use to do it « House of Stones

Research and the tools we use to do it « House of Stones — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:06:13 +0000

[...] Iain Couzin is a computational biologist who studies adaptive collective phenomena in animal groups – the complex and coordinated collective behaviors that result from social interactions among individuals. He presented several great streams of research in a talk he gave this past fall, most of which were characterized by innovative uses of technology. For example he helped develop video-technology to track the head direction (as a proxy for gaze direction) of individuals in large crowds. Then he used that technology to observe the perception and movement patterns that emerge in response to interventions like an individual engaging in surreptitious behavior (in this case, surreptitiously filming something in the crowd). So for instance, how do crowds respond when they start to realize that something isn’t quite right? [...]

Comment on Iain Couzin interview by Jane Lee by Felix Hunter

Felix Hunter — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:48:22 +0000

I have always been amazed at the precision, flexibility and fluidness of animals, particularly birds. It truly is an amazing thing nature.

Comment on Media attention following our recent Science paper by Gli individui non informati alla base del consenso democratico « Sbagliando s’impera

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:54:23 +0000

[...] Media attention following our recent Science paper [...]

Comment on Leadership, collective behavior, and the evolution of migration by Elaine Dudley

Elaine Dudley — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:49:48 +0000

So-called environmentally induced migration is multi-level problem. According to Essam El-Hinnawi definition form 1985 environmental refugees as those people who have been forced to leave their traditional habitat, temporarily or permanently, because of a marked environmental disruption (natural or triggered by people) that jeopardised their existence and/or seriously affected the quality of their life. The fundamental distinction between `environmental migrants` and `environmental refugees` is a standpoint of contemporsry studies in EDPs.
According to Bogumil Terminski it seems reasonable to distinguish the general category of environmental migrants from the more specific (subordinate to it) category of environmental refugees.
Environmental migrants, therefore, are persons making a short-lived, cyclical, or longerterm change of residence, of a voluntary or forced character, due to specific environmental factors. Environmental refugees form a specific type of environmental migrant.
Environmental refugees, therefore, are persons compelled to spontaneous, short-lived, cyclical, or longer-term changes of residence due to sudden or gradually worsening changes in environmental factors important to their living, which may be of either a short-term or an irreversible character.

Comment on Leadership, collective behavior, and the evolution of migration by Pesquisa mostra como a ignorância pode favorecer a democracia | O Brasileirinho

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:35:06 +0000

[...] professor Ian Couzin, do Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Princeton University EUA, perguntou para si [...]

Comment on Iain Couzin – CV by Leadership’s Dark Side | Mike Lehr's Blog

Leadership’s Dark Side | Mike Lehr's Blog — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:37:02 +0000

[...] 2011 of The New Yorker, John Seabrook writes in “Crush Point” about a study designed by Iain Couzin of Princeton University and led by Jens Krause at Leeds University. It found that a group of 200 [...]