7:00 – 8:00 Research

• Write CHI review today!
• Started writing abstract by going through The Law of Group Polarization and pulling out relevant quotes that describe what the model should do. Also found a couple of well-cited papers on flocking as group decision making. Still need to dig up sociophysics citations on:
  • Multidimensional voter models(?)
  • Reynolds flocking algorithm
  • Polarization as a static result.
• Decision-making processes: The case of collective movements
  • Peter McBurney
• Do I need to change the “allow interaction” from binary to continuous (basically a weight on the interaction value?  The amount of “isolation” could then be varied.

8:30 – 5:30 BRC

• Fixing the parser for XmlLoader dates – done
• Built the batch state machine
• Ran a sim from file!
• Need to
• Fixed an error where I put a set of .com pages in the search instead of exclude file.
• Curating
• Sprint review