{"id":1449,"date":"2013-07-22T01:12:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2013-07-01T07:18:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T12:18:34","slug":"new-misuse-for-facial-recognition-real-time-political-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/07\/new-misuse-for-facial-recognition-real-time-political-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"New (Mis)Use for Facial Recognition &#8211; Real-Time Political Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facial recognition software can (probably) detect emotional reactions. We enter the age of the real-time political poll and its (largely unintended) consequences.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A recent study delves into the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/516606\/facial-analysis-software-spots-struggling-students\/\">facial recognition software in education<\/a>. I like the idea. Have the computer detect confusion, frustration, etc. in students using computer-based training or online learning. Provide this information to the educator so that learning is enhanced.<\/p>\n<p>And then my mind wanders to some other uses. How about real-time political polling? A politician is giving a speech on TV and the net. Face cameras on computers and smartphones monitor the expressions of those watching the speech. The speaker is given real-time information about the reactions of the watchers. The speech changes in real-time so that the speaker is perceived favorably.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the harm? That is open to debate. What are the outcomes? Who knows. We enter the era of real-time political polls. Watch out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Facial recognition software can (probably) detect emotional reactions. We enter the age of the real-time political poll and its (largely unintended) consequences. A recent study delves into the use of facial recognition software in education. I like the idea. Have the computer detect confusion, frustration, etc. in students using computer-based training or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[143,126],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-technology","tag-change","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}