Does There Exist Relationship between Personality and Handwriting of Chinese Characters? A View from Image Mining

This paper presents a study on the relationship between personality and handwriting of Chinese characters through image mining technologies. A questionnaire of personality test is used to quantify the 5 global personality factors of participants. The handwriting samples of participants are acquired and scanned into computer images. 23 handwriting features can be extracted from these sample images through image processing methods. Considering the imbalanced distribution of the sample data, a cost-sensitive neural network with modified training algorithms and correlation analysis are employed to examine the association between the handwriting features and global personality factors. The results hint that there indeed exist some weak linear and strong non-linear relationships between most of personality factors and specific handwriting features. These relationships provide the possibility for computerized analyzing people's personality by their Chinese handwriting.