If lie detection is your thing, choices aren't exactly scarce: you can go with
Lego for the kids,
Skype-centric for remote fibber identification, or even
use a headband if you can corral your suspect long enough. Hoping to add to that list is the University of Utah, whose eye-tracking lie detector has been licensed to a local company in order to explore its viability as a commercial product. As with
Blade Runnner's Voight-Kampff empathy test, Utah's methodology revolves around monitoring things like eye movement, pupil dilation and response time -- with the major difference being that you're trying to identify truth evaders rather than skinjobs. John Kircher, one of the lead researchers, claims results so far have been as good as or better than those obtained with polygraph testing, though he admits the project is still in its early stages. No worries, though, we're sure they'll perfect the technique in time for our post-apocalyptic, Vangelis-scored future.
posted July 12th 2010 4:36AM
Will it still work if you have pink eye?
@Coke
Ofcourse!
Now the question is; was that a lie?
@Kangal How will it determine false positives? Say for instance You were asked whether you raped and murdered a child. You wouldn't have to be guilty, you'd just have to find the concept abhorrent to get a read.
@Coke
Will it work if you have Nystagmus, that's my question!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nystagmus
Btw, I suffer from nystagmus.
"let me tell you about my mother..."
@bigshape
BLADE RUNNER Nexus 6 Androids
CYBERPUNK
@bigshape
Mr Deckard needed more than 100 questions to discover that Rachael was a Nexus 6. LOVE that movie.
Crap no more lying? Isn't that part of the human condition?so Does that mean there's a cure for a human 'defect'?
"local company" - lightman corp. ?
Now we just need to learn another skill in how to lie.
Not to keen on polygraph test, after I was able to pass test questions by lying. This either makes me a really good liar, when it comes to things like my real name, age and where I live. I was able to pass the 20 test questions by answering yes to them (as instructed), the first time, and then no to them, the second run through (again as instructed).
Be interesting to see what would happen with an eye lie tester. :-)
OMG he's blown a pupil answering to what his real name is!
"dohh my eye twitch! can i try again?"
The advantage of this is that you can test people without them know they're being tested.
Excellent!
Just close your eyes throughout the test...
I scrolled down to stop the eye looking at me, while still being able to read, but was met with another eye!
on the balance of proberblites you all replicants! for the comments you have posted,you are all to report in a orderely fashion to the nearest police station for a interview with a blade runner Deckard ,so you future can be decided ,thank you.
i hope i am not a nexus 6. does anyone know where i can get tested? IF i am an android, does that mean that the Bladerunner who tests me will shoot me if i fail...
If I'm a nexus 6 will I get updated to froyo?
@marzon
"If I'm a nexus 6 will I get updated to froyo?"
Good One, but in the future that would be a Downgrade.
Present ==> Nexus 1==> Froyo
Future ==> Nexus 6 ===> Sundae?
*rolls eyes*
They'd never catch me in a lie with eye motions like that.
A seriously easily thwarted and dumb technology. Just move your eyes all over the place.
Apparently your eye moves to different corners, depending on if you're recalling, lying or whatever. So just stare straight forward. Simple.
This is probably just as easy to fool as regular lie detectors. Just as they can be fooled by modulating your own pulse rate, it is possible to control your eyes' dilation with similar techniques.
@ackthbbft
Really? Last time I knew science has proven that dilation of the pupils is an involuntary reflex. Hmmmm...
Maybe you've been smoking too much of the stuff that dilates your pupils..LOL :P
@ofcmad Hehe, I've never smoked that stuff (except maybe second-hand at concerts).
One could say your pulse rate is "involuntary", but simply controlling your breathing rate and even self-infliction of minor pain can increase or decrease your pulse rate via voluntary means.
Similarly, pupil dilation can supposedly be controlled voluntarily by contracting the stomach muscles such as to simulate a nervous response, which in turn affects your pupils (this was actually in a recent article about using body language to attract members of the opposite sex).
Given that you have a better chance knowing if someone lied by flipping a coin than using a polygraph, it really doesn't have much to live up to.
How would you even keep a suspect's head still enough in an interview to be able to use something like this?