The impact of personality traits on users’ information-seeking behavior

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Highlights：

• We studied eye-movement behavior in different information-seeking tasks.

• We found three patterns of information seeking based on users’ personality facets.

• Personality traits drive information seeking differently depending on the task.

• Eye-movement parameters can predict these patterns in different information-seeking behaviors.

摘要

•We studied eye-movement behavior in different information-seeking tasks.•We found three patterns of information seeking based on users’ personality facets.•Personality traits drive information seeking differently depending on the task.•Eye-movement parameters can predict these patterns in different information-seeking behaviors.

论文关键词：Online information seeking,Personality traits,Information behavior

论文评审过程：Received 22 October 2015, Revised 23 August 2016, Accepted 29 August 2016, Available online 9 September 2016, Version of Record 23 November 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2016.08.004