Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP130101670]Researchers: A/Prof Mary Myerscough (Chief Investigator) , Ashley Ward (Chief Investigator) , Camille Buhl (Chief Investigator) , Prof Dr Jens Krause (Partner Investigator)
Brief description Leadership matters: the emergence of informed leaders and their influence on group movement. This project will discover the effect of leadership and social structure on collective motion in schools of damselfish, swarms of honey bees and human pedestrians using videoed experiments and computer simulations. These findings will be important in preventing crowd stampedes, understanding risky road crossing behaviour and designing 'swarms' of robots.
Funding Amount $360,000
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP130101670
- ARC : DP130101670