Eye Contact App, MiContact

[Kevin1968]

Just saw an interview with Ciara-Beth Griffin, a young Irish woman who has developed an app that she hopes will help improve eye contact.
Her aim is to improve employment prospects as a lot of employers typically consider lack of eye contact a negative thing.

MiContact

I think it's only on Apple currently.

 

[Peter Morrison]

This is a very bright idea. Just like social chit-chat, people on the spectrum have to understand the issue and do more than others to overcome it, if they care to deal with it at all. It just means that we have to practice more. I know I concentrate better if I am not looking directly at anything animate. That helps me thwart any ADD that might creep in by not being distracted by moving objects.

What we miss when we are not looking someone in the eyes is the related head movements, smiles, facial expressions, and other communication signs commonly expressed by the NT world. None of us knows how to manipulate body language because we don't know how body language communicates information to others. It's very subconscious. I am, though, curious to know what others see. I can only know that by seeing how it works on them.

This app is a good start. Learning how to look someone in the eyes is the first step in exercising it when we deem it important or necessary. I think that people on the spectrum have trouble recognizing faces because we never look at them with interest, nor do we even explore them. It's one of those skills we have to consciously learn. It doesn't come naturally.

 

[Progster]

What we miss when we are not looking someone in the eyes is the related head movements, smiles, facial expressions, and other communication signs commonly expressed by the NT world. None of us knows how to manipulate body language because we don't know how body language communicates information to others. It's very subconscious. I am, though, curious to know what others see. I can only know that by seeing how it works on them

Yes, we miss the ememes (emotional metamessage or hidden emotional communication), or fail to deliver the expected ememe.