Voight-Kampff Empathy Test‏/ Harriet Smith @ HOVEL

Voight-Kampff Empathy Test‏

an intervention by Harriet Smith @ HOVEL

Open:

Weekends February 20^th 21th 27^th 28^th

March 6th 7th: 1-6pm.

Private View 21st of February 3-7pm.

Address:

37 Evelina Mansions

New Church Road

Camberwell, SE5 7JW

Other viewing by appointment:

0207 703 6337 or hoveltenant@googlemail.com

The Voight-Kampff test attempts to distinguish androids from human beings by autonomic responses to questions that should elicit an empathic response. Because it seeks to gather and measure biological information for security purposes, the empathy testing procedure is a kind of biometric identification system.

"I'm not a peace officer," Rick said. "I'm a bounty hunter." From his opened briefcase he fished out the Voight-Kampff apparatus, seated himself at a nearby rosewood coffee table, and began to assemble the rather simple polygraphic instruments...
"This" - he held up the flat adhesive disk with its trailing wires - "measures capillary dilation in the facial area. We know this to be a primary autonomic response... This records fluctuations of tension within the eye muscles.