According to the Kyoto Institute of Technology, the paper was jointly presented by Assistant Professor Murakami, Professor Yudai Nishiyama of the Faculty of Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Associate Professor Felicani Claudio of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, and Professor Katsuhiro Nishinari.This is the 15th consecutive year that Japanese researchers have received awards.

　The research team focused on the phenomenon that two groups of pedestrians moving facing each other on a pedestrian crossing naturally divide into several rows, and 2 students were divided into groups of 54 and their behavior was observed.

　At that time, when the three people at the head of the pedestrian group were given smartphones and walked while solving computational problems, the walking speed of the entire group slowed down, and they moved a lot to avoid collisions, causing disturbance. I found that the possibility of collision increased.

　Assistant Professor Murakami and his colleagues move while predicting the behavior of other pedestrians in the pedestrian group, but I suspect that the prediction is hindered by the presence of pedestrians on walking smartphones.It has been proved that walking smartphones have a bad influence not only on the person but also on the group.

　The award ceremony is held at Harvard University in the United States every year, but it was held online due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection.

Paper information:[Science Advances] Mutual anticipation can contribute to self-organization in human crowds