How important is gaze and eye contact in social interaction? NVC is used to regulate social interaction. The eyes and also the mouth dominate facial expressions. But just how much they influence interpersonal communication is what I chose to investigate. Eye contact and gaze are different: gaze is one person looking at another, where as eye contact is when two look at each other at the same time. This is also known as mutual gaze. …showed first 75 words of 547 total…

…showed last 75 words of 547 total…if eye contact is taken out of the equation does it affect the way that people communicate. Does the system break down? I asked a number of people what they think. I found that it could effect it quite dramatically, people who are not looked at whilst they are speaking tend to take offence, and it also depended on the relationship between the people. This maybe because in our culture we look at the speaker.