I am conducting a study examining how integrating personality information on an anime recommender system influences the quality of recommendations. My name is Francisco Arriaga and I am an undergraduate Psychology student at The University of Texas at El Paso.
The steps of the task include:
Fill out a set of questionnaires (98 questions)
The study lasts about 12 minutes.
If you guys choose to participate, you will receive a description of your personality profile according to you scores on several personality dimensions, and you will be contributors to the development of a personality based anime recommendation system.
Requirements:
Must be 18 years of age or older
Must have a publicly available anime list at MyAnimeLIst
You will receive a description of your personality profile upon completion of the questionnaires
If interested, click on the following link or type it in your browser, it should take you to the personality survey powered by Qualtrics:
Openness to Experience
As the name suggests, Openness to Experience refers to a persons' receptivity to new ideas and experiences.
Your score in Openness to Experience is High. This iindicates that you enjoy novelty, variety, and change. You are curious, imaginative, and creative. You have an interest in the arts and sciences.
You tend to think in symbols and metaphors and notice patterns. You look beyond the facts and pursue a higher level of understanding. You may consider yourself adventurous and probably enjoy exploring new things. You may get bored with the routine and mundane, preferring instead to seek out environments that stimulate your mind. You are likely politically liberal and open to new and unconventional ideas.
Conscientiousness
Conscientiousness describes individuals' tendency to direct and control their impulses.
Your score in Conscientiousness is Average. This indicates that you are a somewhat goal-oriented person, but you still make space for flexibility.
You are not super-organized, but you're definitely not irresponsible. You are capable of setting long term goals and pursuing them, but you don't over stress yourself trying to stick to a plan. You are probably good at achieving a balance between work and life. You can work hard when you need to, but you also know when it is time to relax.
Extraversion
Extraversion describes a person’s inclination to seek stimulation from the outside world, especially in the form of attention from other people.
Your score in Extraversion is Average. This indicates that you are neither a subdued loner nor a jovial chatterbox. You enjoy time with others but also time alone.
You have an average motivation to pursue social rewards. You value admiration, influence, and prestige to some extent, but can do without them most of the time. You may enjoy attending large social gatherings such at parties, but staying home or gathering with a few close friends is just as appealing to you.
Agreeableness
Agreeableness reflects an individual's tendency to empathize, trust, and cooperate with other people.
Your score in Agreeableness is High. This indicates a strong interest in others' needs and well-being. You desire to help, and your emotional sensitivity, or intelligence, is higher than most. You are perceptive, empathetic, and altruistic. You are naturally helpful, and because you feel the needs and pain of others deeply, you are compelled to act.
You may struggle to assert your needs and preferences, but as a general rule, you are content to go with the flow. You form friendships easily because you are willing to give others the benefit of the doubt and slow to form judgments. You probably are popular and well liked.
Neuroticism
Neuroticism refers to a person's tendency to experience negative emotions
Your score in Neuroticism is Low. This indicates that you are exceptionally calm, composed and unflappable. You do not react with intense emotions, even to situations that most people would describe as stressful. You probably have a solid self-esteem and a positive outlook on life.
Thanks for the kind words, but I'm curious as to how does this relate to anime recs.
Thanks for the kind words, but I'm curious as to how does this relate to anime recs.
I will integrate this data in a recommender algorithm and test its performance. I intend to use the results to see if including personality information improves the algorithm's performance, and to what extent. I will then use the results to develop a usable recommendation engine.
Interesting idea but this could only be negatively useful, which means not very much. Let me explain.
There are a few genres of anime that I purposefully avoid, even admitting these reflect my personnality (through my taste), the anime I don't avoid are pretty broad, not sure you can take anything from it to recommend something else (well you could if you did something by similar genre, but this has nothing to do with personnality). And it's probably the same for everyone.
Thanks for the kind words, but I'm curious as to how does this relate to anime recs.
I will integrate this data in a recommender algorithm and test its performance. I intend to use the results to see if including personality information improves the algorithm's performance, and to what extent. I will then use the results to develop a usable recommendation engine.
S-quare22 said: Is the age really important to participate ?
I guess the age is important to participate as people of different ages maybe be less mature or wiser from their experiences and knowledge based on their age alone..
I got all average except for extraversion or whatever, which was low.
Tbh, I'm not even upset or shocked in anyway, as the results sounded more like me than any personality test has said before, though I don't think the results are quite unique to each individual participant.
Welp, good luck with whatever you do and I hope to see the anime recommendations haha
Eight-Man said: I got all average except for extraversion or whatever, which was low.
Tbh, I'm not even upset or shocked in anyway, as the results sounded more like me than any personality test has said before, though I don't think the results are quite unique to each individual participant.
Welp, good luck with whatever you do and I hope to see the anime recommendations haha
Thanks, I'm glad to hear you found the feedback accurate. You are right, for this particular study the feedback is very standardized, but in follow up studies, and hopefully in the actual engine, the idea is to produce a much more personalized description of your personality.
huh average almost everything, but highly open to new experiences, yet I'm low with agreeability with people. I guess I can get pretty stubborn about stuff, but I'm super curious and want to try new things. maybe that's why.