{"id":66,"date":"2012-03-14T14:50:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T14:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/?p=66"},"modified":"2012-04-23T02:48:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T02:48:45","slug":"idea-4-personality-test-interest-based-test-on-a-social-networking-website-aa15g11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/2012\/03\/14\/idea-4-personality-test-interest-based-test-on-a-social-networking-website-aa15g11\/","title":{"rendered":"Idea 4 &#8211; Personality Test: Interest-based test on a social networking website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this final ideas post, Amir describes an interest-based online test &#8211; one which can analyse a user&#8217;s personalities based on their social\/interest networks for a number of uses. In the next post, we will present our chosen idea, why we chose it, and what we will be doing next in this project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The current situation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Time is valuable\n<ul>\n<li>Year after year more people are spending more time on social networking websites.<\/li>\n<li>Some people spend their time to fulfil questionnaires to see what type of person they are; both in real life and on social networking websites.<\/li>\n<li>Not all of these questionnaires on social networking sites are based on academic theories; lots of them are just for fun.<\/li>\n<li>Particularly in Facebook, many of these applications have a range of 20 to 900 monthly active users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Self-knowledge is necessary\n<ul>\n<li>There are three primary motives that lead us in the search for self-knowledge: Self-Enhancement, Accuracy and Consistency.<\/li>\n<li>Self-knowledge is based on several different forms of information.<\/li>\n<li>There is a connection between what we like and our personality.<\/li>\n<li>Our favourite types of music, movie, books and such can represent our character.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The solution<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Facebook, as the most popular social networking website, people have a profile in which they can list their favourite music, books, movies, TV shows, Games.<\/li>\n<li>There are also a variety of existing databases, which contain a significant amount of information about each of the mentioned media that a person likes. For instance, <a title=\"IMDB\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">IMDB<\/a> has an accurate database of movies; <a title=\"Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> and <a title=\"Google Books\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Books<\/a> have a database of books; iTunes can be a reference to identify the kind of music.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/files\/2012\/03\/demo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/files\/2012\/03\/demo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/files\/2012\/03\/demo.png 500w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/files\/2012\/03\/demo-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>With the available information, a tool can be designed to give the person his\/her personality analysis without asking questions.<\/li>\n<li>Based on available data from the users we can offer them further products, which have a similar pattern.<\/li>\n<li>Furthermore, we can help connect users with other people with complementary personalities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The values to the users<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People spend their time to get useful information that is based on scientific theories.<\/li>\n<li>They can get recommendations that suit their taste.<\/li>\n<li> They can find new people with the same interest or people that match their personality to become friends with.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As it is just a rough idea, it can be extended to offer more values for different stockholders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Similar previous work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getglue.com\">Getglue<\/a> has some cool related features to look at.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Challenges and issues<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The accuracy of the results of personality test could be controversial.<\/li>\n<li>There is an overlap with Psychology which none of the group members has academic experience in it; therefore, more research would be needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this final ideas post, Amir describes an interest-based online test &#8211; one which can analyse a user&#8217;s personalities based on their social\/interest networks for a number of uses. In the next post, we will present our chosen idea, why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/2012\/03\/14\/idea-4-personality-test-interest-based-test-on-a-social-networking-website-aa15g11\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19674],"tags":[6469,20959,20936,20941,263,67,20938,20937],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-ideas","tag-ideas","tag-interest","tag-personality","tag-personality-analysis","tag-psychology","tag-recommendations","tag-self-enhancement","tag-self-knowledge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/hive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}