Prediction of Personality through Hand Geometry and Big Five Factor Model

Abstract Human hand portrays the abundant information about different temperamental activities of an individual. Hand analysis provides an efficient way to define the characteristics of a person. It reveals personality characteristics such as openness, agreeableness, extrovert, communicative, idealistic and emotional stability. The proposed system included 50 hand (left and right) shape images. Through the hand geometry the features like palm ratio, fi nger palm ratio and finger index were extracted and used for categorization of Earth, Air, Water and Fire hand shapes. Distinctive prominent categorizations of personality were categorized through Big five personality. The results obtained were observed to be efficient in predicting the personality of a person. Keywords: Chirognomy, Elemental Hand Shape, Big Five Factor Model, Personality Prediction