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出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1920484117
关键词
personality; behavior; machine learning; mobile sensing; privacy
资金
- Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts of the Center Digitisation.Bavaria
- LMU-excellence initiative
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research Grant [01IS18036A]
- National Science Foundation [SES-1758835]
- Google research grant
This study examined the predictive ability of behavioral information collected from smartphones on individuals' Big Five personality traits, finding that specific behavioral patterns can predict personality traits. The accuracy of these predictions is similar to those based on digital footprints from social media, showing the potential of passively collecting behavioral patterns from smartphones to obtain information about individuals' private traits.
Smartphones enjoy high adoption rates around the globe. Rarely more than an arm's length away, these sensor-rich devices can easily be repurposed to collect rich and extensive records of their users' behaviors (e.g., location, communication, media consumption), posing serious threats to individual privacy. Here we examine the extent to which individuals' Big Five personality dimensions can be predicted on the basis of six different classes of behavioral information collected via sensor and log data harvested from smartphones. Taking a machine-learning approach, we predict personality at broad domain (rmedian = 0.37) and narrow facet levels (rmedian = 0.40) based on behavioral data collected from 624 volunteers over 30 consecutive days (25,347,089 logging events). Our cross-validated results reveal that specific patterns in behaviors in the domains of 1) communication and social behavior, 2) music consumption, 3) app usage, 4) mobility, 5) overall phone activity, and 6) day- and night-time activity are distinctively predictive of the Big Five personality traits. The accuracy of these predictions is similar to that found for predictions based on digital footprints from social media platforms and demonstrates the possibility of obtaining information about individuals' private traits from behavioral patterns passively collected from their smartphones. Overall, our results point to both the benefits (e.g., in research settings) and dangers (e.g., privacy implications, psychological targeting) presented by the widespread collection and modeling of behavioral data obtained from smartphones.
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