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posted by janrinok on Friday July 24 2015, @10:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the or-so-they-say dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 1) by dogvomit on Friday July 24 2015, @01:05PM

    by dogvomit (5452) on Friday July 24 2015, @01:05PM (#213125)

    The reference to 1984 seems like a real red herring. Inflict pain? What?

    A real (actually reliable) lie detector would be a great boon to society. No more "my word against your word." I think a much better reference than 1884 would be H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy. You go under oath and if you lie, we know.

    I can imagine a bit of a shake-up to society if everyone's cell phone would go red when someone tells a lie. But I think people would learn to shut up when they don't want to speak the truth.

    —George

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2015, @01:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 24 2015, @01:13PM (#213130)

    The problem is then that only pathological liars (who really, truly believe their own lies -- just like 1984's doublethink) will be able to pass the lie detector test and enter into positions of trust and power in society. To a large extent, this is already the way society works anyway. Improved "deception detection" technology will only help the rulers oppress the masses.

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday July 24 2015, @04:39PM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday July 24 2015, @04:39PM (#213210) Homepage

      The pathological liar does not believe his own lies, 'pathological liar' is just another way to say sociopath.

      The pseudologue is the one who believes his own lies.

      The more you know.

  • (Score: 2) by Refugee from beyond on Friday July 24 2015, @05:41PM

    by Refugee from beyond (2699) on Friday July 24 2015, @05:41PM (#213226)

    Just because you think you said the truth does not mean you actually did, though.

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