Presentation IASDR 2013 conference for  in Tokyo, by Jie Li.

This presentation introduces the concept of crowd well-being and the needs for sustaining it.

Crowd well-being can be interpreted as crowd member’s evaluations on their emotional reactions, moods and judgments they form about their satisfactions, goals or needs fulfilment in a crowded situation according to the definition of subjective well-being by Diener and his colleagues.

Higher level needs, i.e. relatedness, autonomy and competency in Sheldon’s two-level hierarchy are essential to the enhancement of crowd well-being when safety is guaranteed. Safety and security needs become prominent in case of emergencies.

Furthermore, it investigates several representative designs and strategies for crowd management and how they fulfil the needs of crowd members through ten crowd expert interviews.

We conclude that the current strategies and designs mostly focus on the effortful planning and preparation for the potentially unsafe situations, which tend to be coercive instead of fully respect crowd member’s autonomy.

A number of technologies are applied to monitor the crowd behaviours externally due to the security concerns rather than approach and assess them locally, understand their needs and provide real-time feedbacks to support these needs.

We suggest that future designs should allow the measuring to go into the crowds and place an emphasis on improving crowd member’s higher level needs on the premise of security.

EWIDS (Very large wireless sensor networks for well-being)
Ook dit is een COMMIT/project

The presentation can be found in this pdf-file.