Simulating Teams with LLM Agents: Interactive 2D Environments for Studying Human-AI Dynamics

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Autores principales: Almutairi, Mohammed, Chiang, Charles, Guo, Haoze, Belcher, Matthew, Banerjee, Nandini, Milkowski, Maria, Volkova, Svitlana, Nguyen, Daniel, Weninger, Tim, Yankoski, Michael, Ford, Trenton W., Gomez-Zara, Diego
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author Almutairi, Mohammed
Chiang, Charles
Guo, Haoze
Belcher, Matthew
Banerjee, Nandini
Milkowski, Maria
Volkova, Svitlana
Nguyen, Daniel
Weninger, Tim
Yankoski, Michael
Ford, Trenton W.
Gomez-Zara, Diego
author_facet Almutairi, Mohammed
Chiang, Charles
Guo, Haoze
Belcher, Matthew
Banerjee, Nandini
Milkowski, Maria
Volkova, Svitlana
Nguyen, Daniel
Weninger, Tim
Yankoski, Michael
Ford, Trenton W.
Gomez-Zara, Diego
contents Enabling users to create their own simulations offers a powerful way to study team dynamics and performance. We introduce VirTLab, a system that allows researchers and practitioners to design interactive, customizable simulations of team dynamics with LLM-based agents situated in 2D spatial environments. Unlike prior frameworks that restrict scenarios to predefined or static tasks, our approach enables users to build scenarios, assign roles, and observe how agents coordinate, move, and adapt over time. By bridging team cognition behaviors with scalable agent-based modeling, our system provides a testbed for investigating how environments influence coordination, collaboration, and emergent team behaviors. We demonstrate its utility by aligning simulated outcomes with empirical evaluations and a user study, underscoring the importance of customizable environments for advancing research on multi-agent simulations. This work contributes to making simulations accessible to both technical and non-technical users, supporting the design, execution, and analysis of complex multi-agent experiments.
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spellingShingle Simulating Teams with LLM Agents: Interactive 2D Environments for Studying Human-AI Dynamics
Almutairi, Mohammed
Chiang, Charles
Guo, Haoze
Belcher, Matthew
Banerjee, Nandini
Milkowski, Maria
Volkova, Svitlana
Nguyen, Daniel
Weninger, Tim
Yankoski, Michael
Ford, Trenton W.
Gomez-Zara, Diego
Human-Computer Interaction
Enabling users to create their own simulations offers a powerful way to study team dynamics and performance. We introduce VirTLab, a system that allows researchers and practitioners to design interactive, customizable simulations of team dynamics with LLM-based agents situated in 2D spatial environments. Unlike prior frameworks that restrict scenarios to predefined or static tasks, our approach enables users to build scenarios, assign roles, and observe how agents coordinate, move, and adapt over time. By bridging team cognition behaviors with scalable agent-based modeling, our system provides a testbed for investigating how environments influence coordination, collaboration, and emergent team behaviors. We demonstrate its utility by aligning simulated outcomes with empirical evaluations and a user study, underscoring the importance of customizable environments for advancing research on multi-agent simulations. This work contributes to making simulations accessible to both technical and non-technical users, supporting the design, execution, and analysis of complex multi-agent experiments.
title Simulating Teams with LLM Agents: Interactive 2D Environments for Studying Human-AI Dynamics
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08242