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3.10.4 Relevant
standards
Standards such as FOAF (Friend Of A Friend) or XFN represent specifications that have been
created specifically to represent people relationships.
In the domain of eCommerce, CIQ (OASIS Customer Information Quality) also provides a
way to specify relationships between a vendor and a customer, or a customer and a vendor
organisation.
3.11 Psychological characteristics (psychology)
3.11.1 Description
The “psychological characteristics” deals with the behavioural aspects of the person. It
includes both the relatively permanent behavioural characteristics of the person such as
personality or cognitive style, to the most instant behavioural state of the person such as the
current psychological state such as mood or attention.
3.11.2
Examples of attributes
•
Psychological state
o
Mood
o
Attention
•
Personality (5 factor model)
o
Extroversion (Sociable / Reserved)
o
Conscientiousness (Self-disciplined / Impulsive)
o
Emotional Stability (Self-Confident / Insecure)
o
Agreeableness (Sympathetic / Cold)
o
Openness to Experience (Curious / Unimaginative)
•
Motivation (Steven Reiss 16 basic factors model)
o
Avoiding Pain & Anxiety
o
Citizenship
o
Curiosity
o
Family
o
…
•
Cognitive style
o
Learning style
Transforming Learners, Performing Learners, Conforming Learners, Resistant Learners
o
Innovation style
Innovators, Early Adopters, Early Majority, Late Majority, Laggards
o
Social style
Connector, Maven, Salesman
3.11.3 Application
domains
Behavioural characteristics are a very sensitive domain, intimately related to the person.
Several domains however are concerned in one way or another with these behavioural
characteristics such as HR (for instance in the hiring process with personality tests or the
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career management of the employees), e-learning (several researches are trying to take into
account the cognitive style of the learner), justice (criminal profiling) or e-commerce
(categories of customers).
3.11.4 Relevant
standards
No open standard is currently available on this subject.
3.12 Summary
The following list represents a (very limited) set of attributes indicating the large variety of
facets that can be used to represent the person. Its aim is simply to indicate the variety of
characteristics that can be used to represent the person.
Facet
Examples of Attributes
Some domains of use
Identification Name
ssn (social security number)
Pseudonym
Security, commerce
Biological
characteristics
Gender
Eye colour
Height
DNA
Finger print
Retina
Iris
Face
Gesture
Medical information
biometrics, medical, forensic
Location Home
location
Work location
Instant location (GPS/mobile)
Mobility, e-commerce
Assets &
transactions
Assets, (real estate, etc.)
Liabilities,
Financial information
Tax information
Income
Transactions
E-Taxation, e-commerce, fighting crime
Citizenship, justice
Political opinion
Union affiliation
Criminal records attributes
Actions (liabilities)
Law enforcement, police, democracy, society
Preferences Interests
Organisation, education, commerce, mobility, leisure
Competences Diploma
Expertise
Organisation, education
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Functions, position
and roles
Organisation
Title
Role
Tasks
Responsibilities
Organisation, Law
Social
characteristics
Personal network (mates,
friends, ...)
Affiliations
Reputation
Society, personal life
Psychological
characteristics
Psychological state
Personality, cognitive style
Motivation
Sexual orientation
Behaviours
Human resources, education, criminal profiling