Opportunities and risks of discovering personality traits from social media

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1081-1086

  Zhou, Michelle X ^a   Golbeck, Jennifer ^b   Nichols, Jeffrey ^a   Lohr, Steve ^c   Dignan, Thomas ^c   Pennebaker, James W ^d  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c New York Times ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ACADEMIC PROGRAM; BIG DATUM; PERSONALITY TRAITS; PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; SOCIAL IMPLICATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; TECHNICAL COMMUNITY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84900558906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2559206.2579408     Document Type: Conference Paper

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