personality and information behavior in web search

Schmidt, Thomas; Wolff, Christian

doi:10.1002/pra2.2016.14505301121

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“…We put the personality questionnaire on purpose in the end so participants were not influenced by the overall idea of the study and under the impression that this was a normal usability test. This is a common approach in studies examining the influence of personality [46]. Furthermore we informed the participants that all data collected was anonymized and that they should answer the questions as honest as possible.…”

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“…Personality has an influence on cognitive performance [42], perceived well-being [23,45], confidence [40], creativity [7] workplace behavior [37], job performance [24] and artistic preferences [22]. The influence of personality can also be observed in areas very close to human computer interaction like social media behavior [32], information privacy concerns [29], information seeking behavior on the web [46] or technology acceptance [50].…”

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The Influence of Participants' Personality on Quantitative and Qualitative Metrics in Usability Testing

Schmidt

Wittmann

Wolff

2019

Proceedings of Mensch Und Computer 2019

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We present the results of a usability study with 35 participants investigating the influence of personality on various metrics used in usability engineering. We conduct a task based usability test with a website integrating tasks of various difficulty and measure performance metrics like task completion rate and time on task. We also use standard questionnaire based usability metrics like the System Usability Scale. Furthermore, we gather qualitative data via open-ended questions and count the number of words as well as the mentions of positive and negative aspects. We measure personality using the well-known big five model, also often referred to as OCEAN model (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism) and three basic needs (need for influence and power, need for recognition and performance, need for security and tranquility). We analyze the relationship between personality and usability metrics via correlations and regression models. We identify multiple significant results and show that in our study the personality correlated with some of the usability metrics we inspected. Extraversion and the need for influence and power show the most and strongest correlations. Furthermore, we also show that regression models based on personality traits can explain up to 37% of the variance in usability metrics. The results have implications for the improvement of the selection process of usability test participants as well as for the interpretation of test results. We discuss these implications and give an outlook on further research in this area.ACM acknowledges that this contribution was authored or co-authored by an employee, contractor or affiliate of a national government. As such, the Government retains a nonexclusive, royalty-free right to publish or reproduce this article, or to allow others to do so, for Government purposes only.

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The Influence of Participants' Personality on Quantitative and Qualitative Metrics in Usability Testing

Schmidt

Wittmann

Wolff

2019

Proceedings of Mensch Und Computer 2019

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“…In the study, those with higher openness were less likely to seek information about their performance. Later, Schmidt and Wolff (2016) found that people higher in openness spent longer on online search tasks and clicked on results further down the page on search engines. An eye-tracking study of online search and personality showed that people higher in conscientiousness, agreeableness and extraversion perform many information-seeking tasks faster than others (Al-Samarraie et al, 2017).…”

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Relating information seeking and use to intellectual humility

Gorichanaz

2021

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Virtue epistemology offers a yet-untapped path for ethical development in information science. This paper presents two empirical studies on intellectual humility (IH), a cornerstone intellectual virtue. Centrally, IH is a matter of being open to the possibility that one may be misinformed or uninformed; it involves accurately valuing one's beliefs according to the evidence. The studies presented in this paper explore the relationship between IH and people's information seeking and use. First, a correlational questionnaire study was conducted with 201 participants considering a recent, real-life task; second, a concurrent thinkaloud study was conducted with 8 participants completing 3 online search tasks. These studies give further color to prior assertions that people with higher IH engage in more information seeking. The results show, for instance, that those with higher IH may actually favor more easily accessible information sources and that some dimensions of IH, such as modesty and engagement, may be most important to information seeking. These findings offer a nuanced understanding of the relationship between IH and information behavior and practices. They suggest avenues for further research, and they may be applied in educational contexts and sociotechnical design.The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.-William James, "The Will to Believe," 1896

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“…Those with this trait tend to use a variety of information-searching techniques (Ahmed et al, 2019) and may be motivated to search for information (Costa & McCrae, 1992). Schmidt and Wolff (2016) found that Agreeableness was positively correlated with use of different search strategies.…”

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Information Seeking Behaviour and Personality Traits in Secondary-school Students

Charoenkul¹,

Chanchalor²

2021

INT J INSTRUCTION

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Although personality traits can influence information-seeking behaviour (ISB), research on this relationship has received inadequate attention from researchers particularly at the secondary-school level. This study identified which of the individual Big Five Personality Traits (BFPT) had a significant effect on ISB and whether BFPT combined with either gender, programs of study, or achievement had an effect on ISB. Data collection involved a self-report survey with Thai secondary-school students (n=3400). Data analysis involved multiple regression, correlation, and two-way Anova. Results showed that of the five BFPT traits, Openness to experience followed by Conscientiousness had a significant effect on ISB. High levels of Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness and Openness predicted higher achievement and ISB. Conscientiousness, Openness to experience, Extraversion, and Agreeableness were positively correlated with ISB. Neuroticism negatively correlated with ISB. Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Openness to experience, positively correlated with academic achievement. Females with any of the five BFPT had higher ISB mean scores than males. Students in Mathematics-Science program with any BFPT had higher ISB mean scores than those in Language Arts-Social Studies program.

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personality and information behavior in web search

Cited by 10 publications

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The Influence of Participants' Personality on Quantitative and Qualitative Metrics in Usability Testing

The Influence of Participants' Personality on Quantitative and Qualitative Metrics in Usability Testing

Relating information seeking and use to intellectual humility

Information Seeking Behaviour and Personality Traits in Secondary-school Students

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