Aligning daily activities with personality: towards a recommender system for improving wellbeing
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Khwaja, Mohammed
Ferrer, Miquel
Jesus, Iglesias
Faisal, Aldo
Matic, Aleksander
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Recommender Systems have not been explored to a great extentfor improving health and subjective wellbeing. Recent advances inmobile technologies and user modelling present the opportunityfor delivering such systems, however the key issue is understand-ing the drivers of subjective wellbeing at an individual level. Inthis paper we propose a novel approach for deriving personalizedactivity recommendations to improve subjective wellbeing by maxi-mizing the congruence between activities and personality traits. Toevaluate the model, we leveraged a rich dataset collected in a smart-phone study, which contains three weeks of daily activity probes,the Big-Five personality questionnaire and subjective wellbeingsurveys. We show that the model correctly infers a range of activ-ities that are ’good’ or ’bad’ (i.e. that are positively or negativelyrelated to subjective wellbeing) for a given user and that the derivedrecommendations greatly match outcomes in the real-world.
Date Issued
2019-09-01
Date Acceptance
2019-06-25
Citation
Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, 2019, pp.368-372
Publisher
ACM
Start Page
368
End Page
372
Journal / Book Title
Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
Copyright Statement
© 2019 ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in RecSys '19: Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, (Sep 2019) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3298689.3347020
Sponsor
Telefonica Innovacion Alpha S.L
Identifier
https://recsys.acm.org/recsys19/
Grant Number
BMPF_P75038
Source
ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys)
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science, Information Systems
Operations Research & Management Science
Computer Science
Personality Traits
Subjective Wellbeing
Activity Recommender
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2019-09-16
Finish Date
2019-09-20
Coverage Spatial
Copenhagen, Denmark