William H. Warren Source Confirmed

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Professor

John Brown University

faculty

6 h-index 100 pubs 402 cited

Research Areas

Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics Spatial Cognition and Navigation Wood Treatment and Properties Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention Civil and Structural Engineering Research Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Visual perception and processing mechanisms Lung Cancer Research Studies

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Dr. William H. Warren is a Professor at John Brown University whose research interests span a diverse set of topics, from evacuation and crowd dynamics to lung cancer diagnosis and treatment. His work on spatial cognition and navigation informs his studies of pedestrian behavior, with recent publications analyzing emergent patterns in crossing flows and the influence of crowd size on exit choice during evacuation. Warren also investigates visual perception and processing mechanisms in both humans and insects, including research on obstacle avoidance flight in bumblebees and the visual coupling between neighbors in human "flocking" behavior. His research extends into areas such as wood treatment and properties, balance and gait, civil and structural engineering, and lung cancer research.

Metrics

h-index: 6
Publications: 100
Citations: 402

Selected Publications

Visual model of locomotion reproduces lanes and stripes in crossing human crowds (2025) DOI
Comparing a Dual-stream Architecture with Single-stream CNNs to Simulate Vision in Locomotor Control (2025) DOI
Visual Influence Networks in Walking Crowds (2025) DOI
Do CNNs Trained on Self-Motion Videos Develop Sensitivity to 1st- and 3rd-order Motion? (2024) DOI
Global Route Selection using Local Visual Information (2024) DOI
How many moving obstacles do we respond to at once? A temporal threshold model best accounts for collision avoidance in a crowd (2024) DOI
Can covert and explicit “leaders” steer and split real human crowds? (2024) DOI
Eliminating Bias in Pedestrian Density Estimation: A Voronoi Cell Perspective (2024) DOI
Visual Influence Networks in Walking Crowds (2023) DOI
Comparing Visual and Omniscient Models of Collective Crowd Motion (2023) DOI
Motion Energy Modulates Feature Tracking in Human Locomotor Control (2023) DOI
A Bifurcation in Visually-Guided Behavior when Following a Crowd (2022) DOI
Does attention influence who you follow in a crowd? Tracking neighbors vs. following your friends (2022) DOI
Blurring Boundaries: Weakening 3rd-order Motion Reduces Locomotor Responses When Following A Crowd (2022) DOI
Visual Interaction Networks and Leadership in Walking Crowds (2022) DOI