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An Anonymous Coward informs us that the 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction will be taking place in Seattle on 13 November. The goal of the Conference is:
... to provide the participants with a forum to foster the dissemination of ideas on computational and behavioral methodologies for deception detection.
The AC points out that, in a call for papers, it specifically says:
The 2015 ACM Workshop on Multimodal Deception Detection [...] will focus on multimodal and interdisciplinary approaches to deception detection, as well as approaches that utilize a single modality with clear potential for integration with additional modalities. Deception detection has received an increasing amount of attention due to the significant growth of digital media, as well as increased ethical and security concerns. Earlier approaches to deception detection were mainly focused on law enforcement applications and relied on polygraph tests, which had proven to falsely accuse the innocent and free the guilty in multiple cases. More recent work on deception has expanded to other applications, such as deception detection in social media, interviews, or deception in day-by-day interactions. Moreover, recent research on deception detection has brought together scientists from fields as diverse as computational linguistics, speech processing, computer vision, psychology, and physiology, which makes this problem particularly appealing for multimodal processing.
In the opinion of the AC, Multimodal Interaction researchers will be trying, in effect, to build a better lie detector at the ACM Workshop, held as part of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. Researchers are aiming for quantitative methods of deception detection by using modalities such as "text, speech, thermal, and visual," with application areas to include "healthcare, law enforcement, and others."
For those of you who remember '1984', senior research director O'Brien, affiliated with the Ministry of Love, passionately described in detail his future vision for the ideal lie detector, which includes a dial with a lever on top and figures running round the face, "able to inflict pain at any moment and to whatever degree I choose," according to O'Brien.
What are your views?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2015, @11:25AM
The idea of a better "Lie Detector" is flawed because the original "Lie Detector" is flawed. Build a sociopathy detector instead; but I suspect you would have trouble seeking funding from those above your station in life. I wonder why?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 24 2015, @02:16PM
It doesn't take much searching to come up with tons of links to prove that lie detectors are bogus. I'll put in the search terms, and anyone can click the links -
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lie+detector+bogus+science [lmgtfy.com]
Some who bother to read any of the links will be saying, "Yeah, but -"
Before I hear any "buts", let me point out that many of the greatest detractors of "lie detectors" were, at earlier stages in their lives, skilled technicians, or people who otherwise contributed to "lie detection".
IT_IS_ALL_BOGUS! You can hire a shrewd voodoo witch who will be as reliable a lie detector as any fool manipulating a pulse and sweat detecting machine. Put your money on a palm reader's table, instead of in that tech's pocket. Few clergy would fail to detect lies more consistently than these "lie detectors".
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Friday July 24 2015, @02:41PM
Indeed. There was a Penn and Teller "Bullshit" episode in which they showed that the machine doesn't work. The process is designed to convince people to voluntarily give up their secrets.
The operator of the machine tells the subjects that the machine showed that they were being evasive and convinces them that it would be better to reveal whatever secrets they were hiding.