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  2. Eye contact - Wikipedia

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    In traditional Islamic theology, it is often generally advised to lower one's gaze when looking at other people in order to avoid sinful sensuous appetites and desires. Excessive eye contact or "staring" is also sometimes described as impolite, inappropriate, or even disrespectful, especially between youths and elders or children and their ...

  3. Joint attention - Wikipedia

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    An individual gazes at another individual, points to an object and then returns their gaze to the individual. Scaife and Bruner were the first researchers to present a cross-sectional description of children's ability to follow eye gaze in 1975. They found that most eight- to ten-month-old children followed a line of regard, and that all 11- to ...

  4. Glossary of geography terms (N–Z) - Wikipedia

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    This glossary of geography terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in geography and related fields, including Earth science, oceanography, cartography, and human geography, as well as those describing spatial dimension, topographical features, natural resources, and the collection, analysis, and visualization of geographic ...

  5. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    A branch of human geography which studies the patterns and interactions of human culture in relation to the natural environment and the human organization of space. culture The accumulated habits, attitudes, and beliefs of a group of people that define for them their general behavior and way of life; the total set of learned activities of a ...

  6. Eyeline match - Wikipedia

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    Hitchcock frequently cuts from Stewart looking off-screen to various people and events that are assumed to be the focus of his gaze. [ 3 ] Eyeline match also refers to the practice of setting off-camera eyelines for single shots of characters within a scene such that, when these shots are cut together, each of the characters appear to be ...

  7. Line of sight - Wikipedia

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    The term "line" typically presumes that the light by which the observed object is seen travels as a straight ray, which is sometimes not the case as light can take a curved/angulated path when reflected from a mirror, [5] refracted by a lens or density changes in the traversed media, or deflected by a gravitational field. Fields of study ...

  8. Geography - Wikipedia

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    Human geography studies people and their communities, cultures, economies, and environmental interactions by studying their relations with and across space and place. [33] Physical geography is concerned with the study of processes and patterns in the natural environment like the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and geosphere. [33]

  9. Eye tracking - Wikipedia

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    Though initial research [79] investigated the efficacy of eye tracking system for interaction with HDD (Head Down Display), it still required drivers to take their eyes off the road while performing a secondary task. Recent studies investigated eye gaze controlled interaction with HUD (Head Up Display) that eliminates eyes-off-road distraction ...