The Human Behavior Patterns Project
This project aims to model general human behavior patterns in a descriptive rather than prescriptive manner. Our goal is not to define how people should behave, but rather to understand and represent how they do behave in real life. We feel that gaining more insight into the reasons why people behave the way they do is never wasted. To achieve this, we integrate state-of-the-art concepts from Artificial Intelligence—particularly from multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) and Artificial Life (AL).
What is human behavior?
Human behavior encompasses the spectrum of actions and mannerisms exhibited by individuals within specific environments. It represents how individuals react to various stimuli or inputs, which can be internal or external, conscious or subconscious, overt or covert, and voluntary or involuntary. Typically, the term “behavior” is used to refer to the array of responses that can be observed by others, as exemplified in Display 1. However, the term human behavior in that perspective is subjective as for instance also brain waves can be detected by other people using specialized medical instruments. Therefore, we use the term of human behavior as human responses which can be detected by the natural senses humans encompasses. In that respect we like to define behaviors which are somehow naturally visible to others, which is metaphorically depicted in Display 1.
