Jointly Predicting Job Performance, Personality, Cognitive Ability, Affect, and Well-Being

TL;DR

This paper introduces a comprehensive benchmark framework that integrates behavioral, psychological, and performance data from wearable sensors and social media to predict 19 individual traits and states, demonstrating improved prediction accuracy over baselines.

Contribution

It presents the first unified benchmark combining diverse data sources and traits for predicting psychological and performance variables from noisy, incomplete real-world data.

Findings

Framework reliably predicts 19 constructs.

Outperforms baseline models on noisy, incomplete data.

Uses data from 757 participants across various roles.

Abstract

Assessment of job performance, personalized health and psychometric measures are domains where data-driven and ubiquitous computing exhibits the potential of a profound impact in the future. Existing techniques use data extracted from questionnaires, sensors (wearable, computer, etc.), or other traits, to assess well-being and cognitive attributes of individuals. However, these techniques can neither predict individual's well-being and psychological traits in a global manner nor consider the challenges associated to processing the data available, that is incomplete and noisy. In this paper, we create a benchmark for predictive analysis of individuals from a perspective that integrates: physical and physiological behavior, psychological states and traits, and job performance. We design data mining techniques as benchmark and uses real noisy and incomplete data derived from wearable sensors to predict 19 constructs based on 12 standardized well-validated tests. The study included 757 participants who were knowledge workers in organizations across the USA with varied work roles. We developed a data mining framework to extract the meaningful predictors for each of the 19 variables under consideration. Our model is the first benchmark that combines these various instrument-derived variables in a single framework to understand people's behavior by leveraging real uncurated data from wearable, mobile, and social media sources. We verify our approach experimentally using the data obtained from our longitudinal study. The results show that our framework is consistently reliable and capable of predicting the variables under study better than the baselines when prediction is restricted to the noisy, incomplete data.