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Eye movements during everyday tasks reveal personality traits. This study used machine learning to predict Big Five personality traits and curiosity from gaze patterns, showing personality influences eye movement control.

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  • Psychology
  • Computer Science
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Eye movements offer insights into cognitive and emotional states.
  • Understanding personality through behavior is crucial for human-computer interaction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if eye movements during an everyday task can predict personality traits.
  • To explore the relationship between specific eye movement characteristics and personality.

Main Methods:

  • Tracking eye movements of 42 participants during a campus errand.
  • Assessing personality using established questionnaires (Big Five traits).
  • Applying machine learning with rich feature sets to analyze eye movement data.

Main Results:

  • Successfully predicted four Big Five personality traits (neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness) and perceptual curiosity from eye movements.
  • Identified novel correlations between understudied eye movement features and personality.
  • Demonstrated significant influence of personality on naturalistic eye movement control.

Conclusions:

  • Eye movements during daily activities are reliable indicators of personality.
  • Findings extend previous lab-based research to real-world settings.
  • Highlights potential for sensing user behavior for personalized human-computer systems.