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  • Integrates traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) personality theory with modern technology.
  • Applies computational methods, including artificial intelligence (AI), to psychological assessment.

Background:

  • Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) five-pattern personality traits show clinical potential but rely on subjective self-report scales.
  • Eye tracking offers an objective, non-intrusive method for assessing cognitive and emotional processes.
  • Bridging TCM personality assessment with objective technological methods is needed.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the feasibility of using eye tracking technology and AI to identify TCM five-pattern personality traits.
  • To develop a novel framework for personality assessment based on eye movement patterns.

Main Methods:

  • Participants observed a set of five emotional facial expressions (anger, happy, calm, sad, fear) from the Chinese Facial Affective Picture System.
  • Eye movement patterns were recorded and analyzed using AI algorithms, specifically five supervised learning algorithms.
  • The Lasso feature selection method and Logistic Regression were employed for prediction accuracy assessment.

Main Results:

  • The study demonstrated the feasibility of automatically identifying TCM five-pattern personality traits from eye movement data.
  • The Lasso feature selection method combined with Logistic Regression achieved the highest prediction accuracy for most traits (TYa, SYa, SYi, TYi).
  • Eye movement behavior patterns correlate significantly with specific five-pattern personality traits.

Conclusions:

  • A novel framework for predicting TCM five-pattern personality traits using eye movement behavior has been successfully developed.
  • Eye tracking technology, analyzed by AI, provides a promising, objective alternative to traditional self-report measures for personality assessment in TCM.
  • This approach offers a culturally neutral and potentially more accurate method for understanding personality within the TCM framework.