Likeness and dealbreakers: Interpreting interpersonal compatibility from online music profiles

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Abstract

How much would a stranger know about you if they knew only the last song you listened to? Quite a bit, at least according to the stranger. Music taste often acts as proxy for our personalities, and we constantly perform this taste perception online. In our study, we find that good first impressions are common, bad first impressions are extreme, and that people pick up on many subtle cues about personality and whether they share common values based on data found in an online music profile. Similar motivations for listening to music and the perception of individuality are more highly valued than similar taste in genres or artists, suggesting that social media applications could benefit from incorporating these motivations in predicting compatibility between users.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationHuman-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2013 - 14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Proceedings
Pages674-681
Number of pages8
EditionPART 3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2013 - Cape Town, South Africa
Duration: Sep 2 2013Sep 6 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 3
Volume8119 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2013
Country/TerritorySouth Africa
CityCape Town
Period9/2/139/6/13

Keywords

  • Music
  • impression formation
  • listening history
  • personality
  • social networking service
  • taste performance

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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