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User Model User-adapt Interact. 2019;29(3):573-618. doi: 10.1007/s11257-019-09219-6. Epub 2019 Mar 19.

A methodology for creating and validating psychological stories for conveying and measuring psychological traits.

User modeling and user-adapted interaction

Kirsten A Smith, Matt Dennis, Judith Masthoff, Nava Tintarev

Affiliations

  1. 1University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
  2. 2University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, UK.
  3. 3University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
  4. 4Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
  5. 5TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands.

PMID: 31402809 PMCID: PMC6647554 DOI: 10.1007/s11257-019-09219-6

Abstract

Personality impacts all areas of our lives; it governs who we are and how we react to life's challenges. Personalized systems that adapt to end users should take into account the user's personality to perform well. Several methodologies (e.g. User-as-Wizard, indirect studies) that use personality adaptation require first for personality to be conveyed to the participant; this has few validated approaches. Furthermore, measuring personality is often time consuming, prone to response bias (e.g. using questionnaires) or data intensive (e.g. using behaviour or text mining). This paper presents a methodology for creating and validating stories to convey psychological traits and for using such stories with a

Keywords: Empirical methodology; Personality; Personality measurement; Research tools

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