Eye Contact in Communication

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This article examines the importance of eye contact in communications. The writer discusses how it can help establish contact between a speaker and their audience, whether it be one other person or a roomful of people. The paper looks at how eye contact can be used successfully in business situations, in the classroom, and when giving presentations. The writer also notes that eye contact is the first communication link established between the newborn and other humans.

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"This paper looks at the importance of eye contact and examines its role in several different situations and how the technological advances in use today where video conferencing or interactions between man and machine are required also need to take eye contact into consideration in their design. The conclusions drawn in all of these studies show that eye contact is important in making a connection between the speaker and the audience and the more eye contact given the better the response obtained. Making eye contact is ... "

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