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== Overview ==
== Overview ==
In public speaking [[Eye contact]] is one of the most important ways a speaker can make connections with their audience <ref>{{Citation | vauthors=((Ravinal, R.)) | year=2022 | title=Eye Contact: Everything in Public Speaking, Even Online | url=https://www.rbr.com/eye-contact-everything-in-public-speaking-even-online/ | access-date=17 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | vauthors=((Wyeth, S.)) | year=2014 | title=10 Reasons Eye Contact Is Everything in Public Speaking | url=https://www.inc.com/sims-wyeth/10-reasons-why-eye-contact-can-change-peoples-perception-of-you.html | access-date=17 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | vauthors=((Tucker, B. G.)), ((Burger, A.)), ((Daniel, C.)), ((Drye, J.)), ((Hunsicker, C.)), ((Mendes, A.)) | veditors=((Tucker, B. G.)), ((LeHew, M.)) | date= 2020 | title=Exploring Public Speaking: The Open Educational Resource College Public Speaking Textbook | edition=4th |pages=240 | url=https://www.exploringpublicspeaking.com/}}</ref>. Research has shown that when speakers increase their eye contact with audience members, it significantly increased how credible that audience found them to be <ref>{{cite journal | vauthors=((Beebe, S. A.)) | journal=The Speech Teacher | title=Eye contact: A nonverbal determinant of speaker credibility | volume=23 | issue=1 | pages=21–25 | publisher=Routledge | date=1 January 1974 | issn=0038-7177 | doi=10.1080/03634527409378052}}</ref>. In most formal public speaking situations the ability to make eye contact is dependent on the environment.
In public speaking [[Eye contact]] is one of the most important ways a speaker can make connections with their audience <ref>{{Citation | vauthors=((Ravinal, R.)) | year=2022 | title=Eye Contact: Everything in Public Speaking, Even Online | url=https://www.rbr.com/eye-contact-everything-in-public-speaking-even-online/ | access-date=17 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | vauthors=((Wyeth, S.)) | year=2014 | title=10 Reasons Eye Contact Is Everything in Public Speaking | url=https://www.inc.com/sims-wyeth/10-reasons-why-eye-contact-can-change-peoples-perception-of-you.html | access-date=17 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | vauthors=((Tucker, B. G.)), ((Burger, A.)), ((Daniel, C.)), ((Drye, J.)), ((Hunsicker, C.)), ((Mendes, A.)) | veditors=((Tucker, B. G.)), ((LeHew, M.)) | date= 2020 | title=Exploring Public Speaking: The Open Educational Resource College Public Speaking Textbook | edition=4th |pages=240 | url=https://www.exploringpublicspeaking.com/}}</ref>. Research has shown that when speakers increase their eye contact with audience members, it significantly increased how credible that audience found them to be <ref>{{cite journal | vauthors=((Beebe, S. A.)) | journal=The Speech Teacher | title=Eye contact: A nonverbal determinant of speaker credibility | volume=23 | issue=1 | pages=21–25 | publisher=Routledge | date=1 January 1974 | issn=0038-7177 | doi=10.1080/03634527409378052}}</ref>. In most formal public speaking situations the ability to make eye contact is dependent on the environment.



"Your zone of interaction involves only the audience members who fall within your gaze when you are standing in the center of the stage or speaking area and facing directly out. Those who are cut off by your peripheral vision fall outside of your zone of interaction. Those audience members who are seated in the front rows to the far left and the far right might feel left out or excluded if you don’t work to make eye contact with them. That means you’ll need to move some and turn your head to include those listeners who are seated outside of your natural zone of interaction."<ref>{{Citation | vauthors=((Schwertly, S.)) | year=2018 | title=4 Tips for Effective Eye Contact | url=https://ethos3.com/4-tips-for-effective-eye-contact/ | access-date=18 August 2022}}</ref>

== Variations ==
== Variations ==



Revision as of 20:25, 18 August 2022

A diagram of the zone of interaction when the speaker stands in a fixed position on stage


The Zone of interaction is the area of an audience in which speaker and audience members can make eye contact [1].

Overview

In public speaking Eye contact is one of the most important ways a speaker can make connections with their audience [2][3][4]. Research has shown that when speakers increase their eye contact with audience members, it significantly increased how credible that audience found them to be [5]. In most formal public speaking situations the ability to make eye contact is dependent on the environment.


"Your zone of interaction involves only the audience members who fall within your gaze when you are standing in the center of the stage or speaking area and facing directly out. Those who are cut off by your peripheral vision fall outside of your zone of interaction. Those audience members who are seated in the front rows to the far left and the far right might feel left out or excluded if you don’t work to make eye contact with them. That means you’ll need to move some and turn your head to include those listeners who are seated outside of your natural zone of interaction."[6]

Variations

References

  1. ^ Brydon, S. R., Scott, M. D. (2008). "Between One and Many: The Art and Science of Public Speaking". Chapter 11 Delivery: Engaging Your Audience (6th ed.). McGraw-Hill Higher Education. p. 297. ISBN 978-0-07-338503-7.
  2. ^ Ravinal, R. (2022), Eye Contact: Everything in Public Speaking, Even Online, retrieved 17 August 2022
  3. ^ Wyeth, S. (2014), 10 Reasons Eye Contact Is Everything in Public Speaking, retrieved 17 August 2022
  4. ^ Tucker, B. G., Burger, A., Daniel, C., Drye, J., Hunsicker, C., Mendes, A. (2020). Tucker, B. G., LeHew, M. (eds.). Exploring Public Speaking: The Open Educational Resource College Public Speaking Textbook (4th ed.). p. 240.
  5. ^ Beebe, S. A. (1 January 1974). "Eye contact: A nonverbal determinant of speaker credibility". The Speech Teacher. 23 (1). Routledge: 21–25. doi:10.1080/03634527409378052. ISSN 0038-7177.
  6. ^ Schwertly, S. (2018), 4 Tips for Effective Eye Contact, retrieved 18 August 2022