Group Dynamics and Behaviour

Depletable Channels: Dynamics and Behaviour

A simple model of multi-hop communication in ad-hoc networks is considered. Similar models are often adopted for studying energy efficiency and load balancing of different routing protocols. We address an orthogonal question never considered by the networking community: whether, regardless of specific protocols, two networks may be considered as equivalent from the viewpoint of the communicatio...

Intrinsic group behaviour: Dependence of pedestrian dyad dynamics on principal social and personal features

Being determined by human social behaviour, pedestrian group dynamics may depend on "intrinsic properties" such as the purpose of the pedestrians, their personal relation, gender, age, and body size. In this work we investigate the dynamical properties of pedestrian dyads (distance, spatial formation and velocity) by analysing a large data set of automatically tracked pedestrian trajectories in...

Supervision and Group Dynamics

An imp ortant aspect of the problem-based and project-organised study at Aalborg University is the supervision of the project groups. At the basic education (first year), it is stated in the curriculum that part of the supervisors’ job is to deal with group dynamics. This is due to the experience that many students are having difficulties with practical issues such as collaboration, communicati...

Modelling Peer Group Dieting Behaviour

The aim of this paper is to understand how peers can influence adolescent girls’ dieting behaviour and their body image. Departing from imitation and social learning theories, we study whether adolescent girls tend to model their peer group dieting behaviours, thus influencing their body image construction. Our study was conducted through an enquiry applied to a cluster sample of 466 adolescent...

Group dynamics.