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If you get "Wired" magazine, check out the November issue, which just hit local newsstands a couple of days ago. There's an article about my work on face recognition that begins on page 194.
Bill
Wow Bill!
I have never known of anyone to be placed in a magazine before that I knew of. Am going to Barnes and Noble today and will be sure and pick-up a copy.
Justin~
Congrats Bill! Way to go!
Awesome. I'm always glad to see more education about this. For those of you who don't know, I've had some issues with FB too. Anything that raises consciousness about it generally makes it easier for people to accept it as something real, and therefor easier on us when explaining things.
Same here, and my inability to recognize faces has gotten me into some embarrassing situations. Take a group of guys with crewcuts, similar colour hair, and the same height, and I become unable to recognize individuals in that group.
I can tell longhairs apart quite easily. Apparently I use hair to identify people. I also use height, ear shape, or moles. I sometimes use teeth to identify people as well. I remember a set of identical twins (a nightmare for someone with prosopagnosia) but one had a chipped tooth.
I wonder how many other men here have this same condition. God only knows.
Absalom
I don't have it as bad as some I've heard. Either my ability is not that impaired, or I've got enough dimensions in my compensation system to make it very liveable. I didn't find out about it until early 2005, and since them I've had some time to think about it, and I think I tend to rely on location, race, body type, clothing, and the other person recognizing me first.
Still, this can go badly sometimes. A young Black woman in our building was wearing a blouse with her name on it because she belongs to some kind of club. The location factor dropped out, and I read her as "black woman in uniform". I asked her if she worked for the power company. She lives in our building. She's a doctor. I know this would not have been a problem if she had come out the door wearing scrubs or a lab coat.
Another guy in our office seems to have a knack for having friends who I would describe as "generic white people". I know I offended at least one of these guys by not recognizing him on our second meeting, and the "I'm bad with faces" explanation just doesn't cut it with some people--they are always going to assume you don't like them or something.
Ditto, Bill, --- I'll see if I can find that magazine today, in fact!
- Ken