These works showed that personality traits could be inferred with reasonable accuracy from text, such as blogs, self-presentations,[4][5][6] and email addresses.
[8] A few years later, research began in personality recognition and perception from multimodal and social signals, such as recorded meetings[9] and voice calls.
[10] In the 2010s, the research focused mainly on personality recognition and perception from social media, helped by the first workshops organized by Fabio Celli.
[16] In the same years, automatic personality synthesis helped improve the coherence of simulated behavior in virtual agents.
[17] Scientific works by Michal Kosinski demonstrated the validity of Personality Computing from different digital footprints, in particular from user preferences such as Facebook page likes,[18] showed that machines can recognize personality better than humans [19] and raised a warning against Cambridge Analytica and misuse of this kind of technology.