Do You Lie, WinMo can tell…

Posted by: Peter Murphy on Jul 05 2008

The windows mobile platform is really advanced and will support many applications, and the limits are, well are there limits. It seems though that some apps may delve into your indiscretions. What if there were an app for WinMo that turned your device into a polygraph, now you’re listening.

This article over at MSNBC, highlights a new application that runs on windows mobile, that uses voice recognition tech to tell if you are lying.

This is designed for military use, not really mainstream software, to help GI’s assess people they come in contact with.

The new device, known by the acronym PCASS, for Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System, uses a commercial TDS Ranger hand-held personal digital assistant with three wires connected to sensors attached to the hand. An interpreter will ask a series of 20 or so questions in Persian, Arabic or Pashto: “Do you intend to answer my questions truthfully?” “Are the lights on in this room” “Are you a member of the Taliban?” The operator will punch in each answer and, after a delay of a minute or so for processing, the screen will display the results: “Green,” if it thinks the person has told the truth, “Red” for deception, and “Yellow” if it can’t decide.

If you think about it though, an application like this may circumvent those “Darling, I have to stay late at the  office” phone calls, that let you stay at the sports bar to watch the game on a big screen TV.

This application ported to general windows mobile devices, and able to be utilised with real time conversations, actually becomes an issue of privacy. At what point do we accept that we may be monitored in ways that we don’t accept, with out notification, whilst using our windows mobile phone?

 

via WMexperts

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