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Area of Science:

  • Digital behavioral science
  • Computational social science
  • Psychological data science

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  • Traditional personality research often overlooks situational influences on behavior.
  • Digital footprints, like smartphone usage, offer novel data for studying behavioral consistency.
  • Previous studies on intraindividual consistency lacked large-scale digital data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate behavioral stability in digital footprints, specifically smartphone usage.
  • To determine if situational dependency influences personality inference from digital data.
  • To assess the accuracy of identifying individuals based on their smartphone usage patterns.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized secondary data from five datasets comprising 780 participants and 28,692 days of smartphone usage.
  • Analyzed per-app measures including pickup frequency and usage duration.
  • Employed random-forest models to predict user identity based on behavioral data.

Main Results:

  • Smartphone usage profiles demonstrated significant consistency for the same user compared to different users (d > 1.46).
  • Random-forest models achieved 35.8% (pickup frequency) and 38.5% (duration frequency) accuracy in identifying users.
  • Accuracy increased to 73.5% and 75.3% when users were within the top 10 predictions.

Conclusions:

  • Situation-dependent stability is evident in digital behavior, offering unique identifiers for individuals.
  • The distinctiveness of digital behavioral patterns presents both opportunities for research and potential privacy risks.
  • Understanding digital behavioral consistency is crucial for ethical data use and privacy protection.