Eyes Really Do Tell a Story

眼睛确实会说话

 

Using machine learning, earlier this year scientists discovered a connection between people’s personalities and their eye movements. They then deployed artificial intelligence to track and analyze the eye movements of 42 students. They announced the results last week.

 

今年早些时候，科学家借助机器学习法发现了人的性格和眼球运动之间的关联，之后科学家用人工智能追踪和分析了42名学生的眼球运动，上周他们宣布了结果。

 

The new technology can detect four of the “Big Five” basic personality traits: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extroversion, and neuroticism. It could not judge openness to experience.

 

这项新技术可以识别出五大基本人格特质当中的四种：随和型、尽责型、外向型和神经质型，但不能判断出开放型人格。

 

The good news, according to one of the researchers, is that this finding could improve how humans and machines interact. If the machine can interpret what a person is like, the thought is, it can act accordingly.

 

一名研究人员指出，好消息是，这一发现能够增进人和电脑间的互动。如果电脑能解读一个人的性格和想法，那它就能据此采取相应行动。

 

“People are always looking for improved, personalized services,” said University of South Australia senior lecturer Tobias Loetscher, who served as the lead researcher of the global team – which also included the University of Stuttgart, Flinders University, and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany – that worked on this study.

 

这个跨国研究团队的首席研究员、南澳大学的高级讲师托比亚斯·勒切尔说：“人们总是在寻求完善的个性化服务。”该研究团队还包括斯图加特大学、福林德斯大学、德国麦克斯·普朗克信息学研究所的科学家。

 

“However, today’s robots and computers are not socially aware, so they cannot adapt to non-verbal cues. This research provides opportunities to develop robots and computers so that they can become more natural, and better at interpreting human social signals.”

 

勒切尔说：“然而，现在的机器人和计算机没有社交意识，所以不能适应非言语提示。这项研究提供了一个改良机器人和计算机的机会，让它们变得更自然，更善于解读人类的社交信号。”

 

On the more negative side, this discovery also screams of privacy implications. Targeted advertising could be taken to a whole new level, and websites would have uncomfortably personal information of its visitors.

 

消极的一面是，这一发现有侵犯隐私之嫌。定向广告可能会全面升级，网站将会得到浏览者极为私密的个人信息。

 

Here are some personality traits related to eye movements. Which one are you?

 

来看看不同眼球运动对应的都是什么人格特质吧。你属于哪一种呢？

 

Curious: look around more

 

好奇型：四处看的频率更高

 

Open-minded: stare at abstract images for longer periods of time

 

开放型：盯着抽象图片的时间更长

 

Neurotic: blink faster

 

神经质型：眨眼更快

 

More conscientiousness: have greater pupil size changes

 

尽责型：瞳孔更频繁地扩大缩小

 

Optimistic: spend less time looking at negative emotional things

 

乐观型：花更少时间看消极的情绪化的内容

 

Watch where you look, kids!

 

小毛孩，眼睛不要乱看哦！

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