A study on influence of human personality to location selection

Human personality has been largely considered to be associated with a preference for location. Maybe an adequate method applied to real-world data of both human personality and location may reveal that these two have a relationship. Two types of data were collected for this study. The Big Five Factors representing the human personality were collected by performing a Big Five Inventory of the participants of this study, and the participants’ positioning data was collected by using portable positioning devices, such as GPS receivers and/or Smartphones. The positioning data can be translated into human mobility, which indicates the preference for different locations as well as the mobile trajectory. A total of five volunteers provided their positioning data for a period of six months, and a back propagation network was used to analyze the personality data and the corresponding location data in order to identify patterns present in the data. A total of 16,807 data points was produced, and the relationship between the personality data and the location data was found by using regression analysis where the personality data were considered as the independent variable and the location data as the dependent variable. The results indicate a functional relationship and meaning between personality and location, as presented in this paper.