Immersive Furnishing - Randomized Big Five Personality Traits Based Interior Layouts

Abstract

In this work, we created an application to generate different apartment settings based on the Big Five personality model and investigated user perception and level of immersion in VR. The goal was to achieve a believable, immersive randomization of apartments interior for open world applications. The Big Five Model is a modern personality theory that defines five central personality traits: extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. For each apartment layout, we simulated a personality by randomizing values of each of the five traits. We then calculated a series of derived traits from these base five traits and used these base and derived traits to influence the interior layout of the apartment. To test how much the personality-based interior layout system affected perceived personality, we set up a key-finding game and asked participants a series of questions about their perception of the apartment tenant after they found the keys on each floor. We found that participants’ perceptions of tenants’ personalities generally matched the original Big Five personality model used to generate the apartment layout with a higher rate than random chance.