Friends don't lie: inferring personality traits from social network structure
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Staiano, Jacopo; Pianesi, Fabio; Lepri, Bruno; Sebe, Nicu; Aharony, Nadav; Pentland, Alex Paul; ... Show more Show less
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In this work, we investigate the relationships between social network structure and personality; we assess the performances of different subsets of structural network features, and in particular those concerned with ego-networks, in predicting the Big-5 personality traits. In addition to traditional survey-based data, this work focuses on social networks derived from real-life data gathered through smartphones. Besides showing that the latter are superior to the former for the task at hand, our results provide a fine-grained analysis of the contribution the various feature sets are able to provide to personality classification, along with an assessment of the relative merits of the various networks exploited.
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2012-09Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory; Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Journal
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing - UbiComp '12
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Association for Computing Machinery
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Staiano, Jacopo, Fabio Pianesi, Bruno Lepri, Nicu Sebe, Nadav Aharony, and Alex Pentland. “Friends Don’t Lie.” Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing - UbiComp ’12 (2012), Sept. 5-8, 2013, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, ACM.
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9781450312240