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Those of you who know me well know that I often am bothered by people who wear a lot of jewelery. It's a weird phobia that seems to go back as far as I can remember. I feel like the jewelery is pushing itself in the way, and preventing me from getting physically close to the person wearing it. I've learned to suppress this to some extent, but it still comes up.
When someone has very little or no jewelery, I feel like I really see them and not the dangly metal stuff.
So along comes this new high tech eye gaze tracking system, and it confirms what I've long suspected.
The red areas denote the parts of the image that people spend the most time staring at.
Notice how people spend as much time staring at her rings, her necklace, her watch, and even his zipper, as they spend looking at the two faces. Basically, people are being pulled away from looking at the faces by all those distracting shiny things. This of course doesn't bother most people, but it does affect me -- I'd rather keep looking at the people's faces, since I feel like I get to know them better that way. It's nice to have this picture validate my sense of how the mind works.
When someone has very little or no jewelery, I feel like I really see them and not the dangly metal stuff.
So along comes this new high tech eye gaze tracking system, and it confirms what I've long suspected.
The red areas denote the parts of the image that people spend the most time staring at.
Notice how people spend as much time staring at her rings, her necklace, her watch, and even his zipper, as they spend looking at the two faces. Basically, people are being pulled away from looking at the faces by all those distracting shiny things. This of course doesn't bother most people, but it does affect me -- I'd rather keep looking at the people's faces, since I feel like I get to know them better that way. It's nice to have this picture validate my sense of how the mind works.
