A Survey of Personality Computing

Abstract

Abstract-Personality is a psychological construct aimed at explaining the wide variety of human behaviors in terms of a few, stable and measurable individual characteristics. In this respect, any technology involving understanding, prediction and synthesis of human behavior is likely to benefit from Personality Computing approaches, i.e. from technologies capable of dealing with human personality. This paper is a survey of such technologies and it aims at providing not only a solid knowledge base about the state-of-the-art, but also a conceptual model underlying the three main problems addressed in the literature, namely Automatic Personality Recognition (inference of the true personality of an individual from behavioral evidence), Automatic Personality Perception (inference of personality others attribute to an individual based on her observable behavior) and Automatic Personality Synthesis (generation of artificial personalities via embodied agents). Furthermore, the article highlights the issues still open in the field and identifies potential application areas.

Acoustic-Prosodic Automatic Personality Trait Assessment for Adults and Children

“…It is clear in the literature that some traits can be more easily recognized by means of automatic procedures than others, but this fact may vary according to the data and the methodologies applied (see [21] for a survey). Moreover, it has been timidly pointed out that different personality dimensions/traits are revealed in spontaneous speech by means of different sets of representative acoustic/prosodic features [11,[14][15][16]21], but exhaustive categorizations of such features and studies on their impact across ages, cultures, etc. are still missing.…”

The Pictures We Like Are Our Image: Continuous Mapping of Favorite Pictures into Self-Assessed and Attributed Personality Traits

“…The first has been obtained by asking the users to self-assess their own Big-Five Traits, the second has been obtained by asking 12 independent assessors to rate the BigFive Traits of the users (see Section III for details). In this way, according to the terminology introduced in [12], it is possible to perform both Automatic Personality Recognition (APR) and Automatic Personality Perception (APP), i.e. the prediction of self-assessed and attributed traits, respectively.…”

“…In the case of this work, the results suggest that favorite pictures account only to a limited extent for self-assessed traits (the best APR result is a correlation 0.26 between actual and predicted traits) while they have a major impact on attributed ones (the best APP result is a correlation 0.68 between actual and predicted traits). To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the few works where APP and APR have been compared over the same data (see [12] for an extensive survey). This is an important advantage because it allows one to assess the effectiveness of a given type of behavioural evidence (the favorite pictures in this case) in conveying information about personality.…”

“…Furthermore, sociologists have observed that the social identity of an individual does not result only from her actual characteristics, but also from the characteristics attributed by others: "We need to recognise that identification is often most consequential as the categorisation of others, rather than as self-identification" [15]. For this reason, the literature proposes approaches aimed at predicting both selfassessed and attributed traits [12] and this work addresses both problems.…”

Personality perception of robot avatar tele-operators

“…After the recordings, all targets were asked to fill in a questionnaire that aims to gather a self-assesssment of personality along the widely known Big Five personality traits [27]. These five personality traits are extroversion (EX -assertive, outgoing, energetic, friendly, socially active), agreeableness (AG -cooperative, compliant, trustworthy), conscientiousness (CO -self-disciplined, organized, reliable, consistent), neuroticism (NE -having tendency to negative emotions such as anxiety, depression or anger) and openness (OP -having tendency to changing experience, adventure, new ideas).…”