The above link goes to a trial on the BBC website. you can watch 20 smiles, and you rate whether you think they are real or fake. At the end you are told whether you are right or wrong on each of them. They are categorized based on some technology in facial feature recognition. I don’t know much about the development of these tools, but I think it is interesting that they can ‘determine’ whether a smile is genuine or fake. Does this mean the software knows more than the smiler? So, could someone be smiling, think it is genuine, but really be classified as fake? If so, is this an error in the software, or does it speak to subconsious emotions? Just some wonderings on my part. I did rather poorly on the quiz…I think I got 13 out of 20. hope you can do better!
Posted by kmdunham on March 9th, 2010 at 11:46 am
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I got 15 out of 20!!!! What a great experiment! I actually had my husband try it as he claims to be really good at being able to read people. As it turns out not so good (13 out of 20). Actually, as I watched him during the experiment he struggled with the fact that he had no context for the experiment. I’d be curious to see how well he faired if he was able to hear the instructions to the participants.
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April 18, 2011 @ 9:03 am