Stigmergy in comparative settlement choice and palaeoenvironment simulation
Decisions on settlement location in the face of climate change and coastal inundation may have resulted in success, survival or even catastrophic failure for early settlers in many parts of the world. In this study, we investigate various questions related to how individuals respond to a palaeoenvir...
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| author | Ch'ng, Eugene Gaffney, Vince Hakvoort, Gido |
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| description | Decisions on settlement location in the face of climate change and coastal inundation may have resulted in success, survival or even catastrophic failure for early settlers in many parts of the world. In this study, we investigate various questions related to how individuals respond to a palaeoenvironmental simulation, on an interactive tabletop device where participants have the opportunity to build a settlement on a coastal land- scape, balancing safety, and access to resources, including sea and terrestrial foodstuffs, while taking into con- sideration the threat of rising sea levels. The results of the study were analyzed to consider whether decisions on settlement were predicated to be near to locations where previous structures were located, stigmergically, and whether later settler choice would fare better, and score higher, as time progressed. The proximity of settlements was investigated and the reasons for clustering were considered. The interactive simulation was exhibited to thousands of visitors at the 2012 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition at the ‘‘Europe’s Lost World’’ exhibit. 347 participants contributed to the simulation, providing a sufficiently large sample of data for analysis. |
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| spelling | nottingham-473302020-05-04T18:16:13Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/47330/ Stigmergy in comparative settlement choice and palaeoenvironment simulation Ch'ng, Eugene Gaffney, Vince Hakvoort, Gido Decisions on settlement location in the face of climate change and coastal inundation may have resulted in success, survival or even catastrophic failure for early settlers in many parts of the world. In this study, we investigate various questions related to how individuals respond to a palaeoenvironmental simulation, on an interactive tabletop device where participants have the opportunity to build a settlement on a coastal land- scape, balancing safety, and access to resources, including sea and terrestrial foodstuffs, while taking into con- sideration the threat of rising sea levels. The results of the study were analyzed to consider whether decisions on settlement were predicated to be near to locations where previous structures were located, stigmergically, and whether later settler choice would fare better, and score higher, as time progressed. The proximity of settlements was investigated and the reasons for clustering were considered. The interactive simulation was exhibited to thousands of visitors at the 2012 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition at the ‘‘Europe’s Lost World’’ exhibit. 347 participants contributed to the simulation, providing a sufficiently large sample of data for analysis. Wiley 2016-10-20 Article PeerReviewed Ch'ng, Eugene, Gaffney, Vince and Hakvoort, Gido (2016) Stigmergy in comparative settlement choice and palaeoenvironment simulation. Complexity, 21 (3). pp. 59-73. ISSN 1099-0526 stigmergy; simulation; settlement choice; palaeoenvironment; cooperative behavior https://doi.org/10.1002/cplx.21616 doi:10.1002/cplx.21616 doi:10.1002/cplx.21616 |
| spellingShingle | stigmergy; simulation; settlement choice; palaeoenvironment; cooperative behavior Ch'ng, Eugene Gaffney, Vince Hakvoort, Gido Stigmergy in comparative settlement choice and palaeoenvironment simulation |
| title | Stigmergy in comparative settlement choice and palaeoenvironment simulation |
| title_full | Stigmergy in comparative settlement choice and palaeoenvironment simulation |
| title_fullStr | Stigmergy in comparative settlement choice and palaeoenvironment simulation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stigmergy in comparative settlement choice and palaeoenvironment simulation |
| title_short | Stigmergy in comparative settlement choice and palaeoenvironment simulation |
| title_sort | stigmergy in comparative settlement choice and palaeoenvironment simulation |
| topic | stigmergy; simulation; settlement choice; palaeoenvironment; cooperative behavior |
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