Eyealike brings the “29 dimensions” to your partner’s appearance

[This corresponds nicely with the current poll on matching on body type...]

The “next step” in online dating: screening your matches based on what they look like seems to be around the corner with Eyealike.com and their facial recognition technology. The basic concept is that it looks at faces in the match database to find a face similar to faces/facial features you find pleasing/attractive (which I presume one selects/picks).

Here is the original video (I originally found it on Good Morning Yahoo).

Some more stuff on their news page.

I guess if paired with the 29 dimensions of personality, it could pare one’s search down quite a bit. It would probably be helpful if eH’s matching database was much larger than it currently is (i.e. if nearly everyone used eH and everyone had more matches than they knew what to do with).

What do you folks think? Good, bad or need to see the technology in action to determine if it would be helpful?

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Fernando Ardenghi wrote:
from http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,221032.shtml
“Eyealike Face Search: Revolutionizing the Online Dating World”

Perhaps only for fun online dating (short term mating) but not for serious online dating (long term romantic relationship)

Because …

“Couples in love often profess that the first look was enough for them to know that their partners were ‘The One’. Scientists, however, beg to differ, and say that the first look is not so much about romance, but about ego and sex.
….
The researchers found that attraction is based on social cues that say, ‘I’m interested in you’, the most important one being someone looking directly at you.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/nov/07/1

“People are attracted to people who are attracted to them…the work challenges most previous studies of facial attractiveness that have focused on physical characteristics, such as a preference for symmetrical faces or masculine versus feminine features. ”

http://www.facelab.org/Publications/articles

Kindest Regards,

Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com
Posted 02 Jul 2008 at 10:15 am ¶
SingleGuyInNC wrote:
I don’t disagree with the points on “initial attraction” but one also can’t dispute that we have preferences for certain facial features and if that was combined with matching personality, you would have a pretty good way to find very ideal matches.

Basically, you don’t have to look at folks that you wouldn’t find attractive and vice-versa. Without the technology, people still manually screen out matches that they don’t find attractive. With this, you would have a few less matches to close out, probably wouldn’t be getting as many matches but they would be “higher quality” since you are also able to match based on attraction. I imagine that there could be settings for “loose” or “I don’t care, send them all, I’ll pick and choose based on looks”.

Regarding “people are attracted to people who are attracted to them”, this software could help filter for that, too and wouldn’t match you with someone you definitely wouldn’t find attractive (and someone who didn’t find you attractive).

I’m curious to see which dating service ends up implementing/licensing the technology first.
Posted 02 Jul 2008 at 2:03 pm ¶

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