'Thin slicing', is the human tendency to draw large conclusions or assumptions about something or someone based on a comparatively small amount of information.

'60 Second Thin Slice', is a social media game played on Facebook, using a webcam that tests your ability to read others and yourself. Randomly matched players spend a short amount of time with each other, competing on their ability to read others and themselves; and deceive or be deceived.

The game is an exercise in both understanding your own body language and others; and in developing greater presentation and interpretation of body language (communication is only 10% verbal, and the majority is body language). The application of Meyer Briggs Type Indicator is that by understanding someone's and your own archetypal personalities, temperaments; one is able to understand and communication more effectively.

This game is inspired from a paper published MIT's media lab, about their algorithm that can detect different types of smiles (http://www.wired.co.uk/article/mit-fake-smile-dete...); and the use of Meyer Briggs Type Indicator theories to define people based on body language (http://www.intpforum.com/showthread.php?p=142393).

Game Rules:

• Player's register by taking a Meyer Briggs Type Indicator test, which is used to create their avatar with their own personality type (see: http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-typ...)
• A Player links up via Facebook using a webcam with their face in view
• Player is matched randomly to an available player
• You are given then given 60 seconds of screen time with each other.
• There is no rules regarding who can talk, and what is required, other than every player's face must be in view the entire time.
• At the countdown each person answers 4 binary questions about their opponent:
  
  • Introverted/ Extroverted?
  • Sensing/ Intuition?
  • Thinking/ Feeling?
  • Judging/ Personality?
• An evaluation of who that person is based on your answers in presented, and compared with their actual type.

• Players that succeed (either one, both or none) as graduated into a higher tier of others with the same success rate, or play again in the same tier.
• Every tier has a maximum number of failures (in correctly reading your opponent) you can have before you are dropped down to the tier below. This prevents people from guessing their way to higher tiers.

The goal is to correctly observe other people's type, and to climb the tier's as high as you can - higher tiers mean a better ability to read others. The key to winning is by being aware of how you communicate and being sensitive in your observations. For instance, telling a bad joke, and eliciting a forced, sarcastic laugh, can give you as much information to go with as much as a genuine laugh. The key therefore, is being in control of your opponent and yourself.

Platform: Any device with a high-resolution webcam, internet connection, and high definition screen, using a Facebook account.
Target Audience: Adults - professionals involved in human resources, communication.

Reference Images:
http://malindie.com/myers-briggs-personality-type-...
http://mamspotkanie.pl/wydarzenie/zrozumiec-emocje...