Found in my inbox:
From Harpers:
Chances that a Japanese person will make eye contact during
conversation with another Japanese person: 2 in 5.
Chances that a Japanese person will make eye contact during
conversation with a robot: Â 3 in 5.That explains it somewhat…
Hate to break it to you, but robots don’t have eyes. This phenomenon is probably less related to eye contact and more related to people who stare at themselves in the TV screens at the camcorder kiosks in department stores.
And you think its different when its a real person?
Make your question make sense and I’ll answer you.
Umm robots are something different worth looking at like a large cake or a car crash in this respect I think it makes sense but the whole eye thing does need to be worked out. Are robot eyes the windows to robot souls?