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 Working on something with nostr

When you're talking to someone face to face in close proximity, which eye do you focus on?

#asknostr #polls #ui 
 Between their eyebrows/nose bridge🥴 
 My shoes 
 (I wonder how many clients even show polls? They're somewhat a failure of Nostr imo. 

And even when clients show polls I don't think people want to zap a poll. Feels like we're long overdue better polls) 
 No one wants to get their pole zapped 😁 
 Yeah, kinda metronome like but focusing on the bridge of the nose if it seems like it's getting too intense for them.  
 That changes regularly.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8449315/

>Eye contact is positively correlated with synchrony as well as ratings of engagement by conversation partners. However, rather than elicit synchrony, eye contact commences as synchrony peaks and predicts its immediate and subsequent decline until eye contact breaks. This relationship suggests that eye contact signals when shared attention is high.

>Furthermore, we speculate that eye contact may play a corrective role in disrupting shared attention (reducing synchrony) as needed to facilitate independent contributions to conversation. 
 Look between both eyes in the middle  
 The bridge of their nose to get both eyes reaction  
 none of this specifically, way more freeform and probably all of this at varying points