Capturing Personality

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Capturing Personality
Goal preservation, enhancement, transfer to new
media, and interstellar travel
William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D.
mysite.verizon.net/wsbainbridge
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Computer-Administered Questionnaires
1986
1989
A background of computer programming of social
and behavioral science software and authoring
methodology textbooks!
1992
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Personality Characteristics
Basic tendencies Genetics Physical
characteristics Cognitive capacities Physiologic
al drives Focal vulnerabilities Personality
traits (5 factors) Characteristic
adaptations Acquired competencies Attitudes,
beliefs, and goals Learned behaviors Interperson
al adaptations Self-concept Implicit explicit
views of self Self-esteem Identity Life story,
personal myth
Objective biography Overt behavior Stream of
consciousness Life course External
influences Developmental influences Macroenviro
nment Microenvironment
McCrae, Robert R., and Paul T. Costa, "Toward a
New Generation of Personality Theories," pp.
51-87 in The Five-Factor Model of Personality,
edited by Jerry S. Wiggins (New York Guilford,
1996).
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Personality Capture Modules from the Bainbridge
Laboratory
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I included an open-ended question asking
respondents to write in their predictions for the
year 2100... About 20,000 responded!
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The Year2100
The Year 2100 has three main goals. It seeks to
be 1. An interactive book of the future
based on the thoughts of thousands of people
around the world, thus a time machine for the
imagination. 2. A system for recording a
person's opinions about issues that challenge
decision makers today, thus a time capsule to
preserve an important aspect of that
individual. 3. An educational system for
preparing essays concerning the major trends of
our times, thus a method for consciousness
expansion at both home and school.
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Cross Input Method
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Block Input Method
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Personality traits (5 factors)
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15 Psych Tests with 310 Scales
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Sample Group Analysis
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Ideals to Strive for
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Emotional Ratings of Life Episodes
ANNE ANalogies in Natural Emotion, an advisor
system, based on ratings of thousands of actual
and hypothetical experiences in terms of 20
emotions anger, boredom, desire, disgust,
excitement, fear, frustration, gratitude, hate,
indifference, joy, love, lust, pain, pleasure,
pride, sadness, satisfaction, shame, surprise .
What other experiences were like THIS one? What
did you do? What happened?
What does it mean?
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STM ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
STM measures your short-term memory (1) error
rates, and (2) response time
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Videogame Play Recording
http//glitch.shorturl.com/
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Continuous Capture
This is an alternate, passive approach, based on
ubiquitous or pervasive computing, that
constantly captures aspects of the individuals
personality, actions, and experiences, as he or
she goes about everyday life. The technology is
being developed by many researchers in a
fragmentary manner at the present time, for a
large number of purposes that are usually limited
in scope. Even after continuous, passive methods
for personality capture have been developed to an
advanced level, it will still be essential to
employ active methods based on scientific
principles, such as questionnaires to measure
traits, attitudes, and beliefs. Following are a
few examples of passive capture...
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Virtual Lifetime Tutor
A personal tutor that understands what a user
knows and does not know, provides just-in-time
tutoring as needed, adapts to a users learning
style and knowledge level, and is initiated by
either the user or the tutor. Dr. Jean Scholtz,
National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST)
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ExperienceCaptureResearchatCarnegieMellonU
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eyeTap
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CARPE
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Personality Capture Guidelines
Select the most appropriate guidance given the
goals and context.
1. Simplify the task by finding commonalities
among superficially different aspects of
personality. 2. Distinguish core features of
personality from peripheral ones. 3. Begin with
a low-fidelity record of a personality, then
gradually increase fidelity as technology and
other resources permit. 4. Concentrate on
features that are essential for a given,
well-defined goal. 5. Conduct personality capture
as a byproduct of accomplishing other things. 6.
Give priority to the qualities that reflect the
person's subjective identity. 7. Employ an
interative process to capture an aspect of
personality emulate it, evaluate the emulation,
use the results to refine capture. 8. In the
light of other criteria, be guided by
cost-benefit analysis.
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NBIC Convergence
...advances in genetic engineering, information
systems, and robotics will allow archived human
beings to live again, even in transformed bodies
suitable for life on other planets and moons of
the solar system. Bainbridge, W. S. (2002). The
spaceflight revolution revisited. In S. J.
Garber (Ed.), Looking backward, looking forward
(pp. 39-64). Washington, D.C. National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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In the first Converging Technologies report,
computer engineering pioneer Warren Robinett
agreed that human personalities could travel
through space at the speed of light in the form
of information transmitted by radio or laser, an
idea I had explored in a 1993 essay. Other
writers have proposed that deep-space exploration
would be carried out by intelligent machines, and
that humans will soon be succeeded by machines as
the dominant intelligent species on this planet .
I suggest that machines will not replace humans,
nor will humans become machines. These notions
are too crude to capture what will really happen.
Rather, humans will realize that they are by
nature dynamic patterns of information, that can
exist in many different material contexts, some
of which are suitable for travel to the
stars. Converging Technologies and Human
Destiny by William Sims Bainbridge, forthcoming.
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