Eye Contact: Social Anxiety

Eye Contact is a practice tool for building comfortable eye contact and easing everyday social anxiety, one graded exposure drill at a time. If holding someone's gaze feels intense, awkward, or exhausting, this app turns that feeling into a skill — small, repeatable reps that start at 3 seconds and build toward a real, relaxed conversation.

Most confidence advice stops at "just relax" or "just be yourself." Eye Contact goes further: a graded ladder of gaze-holding drills, an AI roleplay partner for real conversation practice, and a scenario library built from the situations that actually make people nervous — interviews, first dates, networking events, new coworkers, and everyday small talk with strangers.

WHAT YOU CAN DO
• Gaze drills on a graded ladder — hold eye contact for 10, 20, 30, 45, or 60 seconds against a rotating stimulus gallery, from a warm smile to a skeptical hiring-manager stare
• Choose your stimulus setting — friendly faces, professional settings, strangers, and date scenarios, each with its own gaze angle and intensity
• AI roleplay partners — practice a full conversation with a job interviewer, a first date, a new coworker, or a stranger at a networking event, complete with natural opening lines
• Scenario library by category — interview, date, networking, workplace, and casual small-talk openers you can study, practice, and reuse in real life
• Daily micro-challenge — one small, doable exposure goal every day, mark it done and keep your streak alive
• Streak and best-hold tracking — watch your longest streak and personal-best gaze hold time build over weeks, not just one session
• Bite-sized coaching tips — short lessons on softening your gaze instead of staring, the triangle technique, starting with 3 seconds, graded exposure, small-talk formulas, and handling silence without panic

WHY EYE CONTACT
• Built on graded exposure — the same well-supported principle behind most anxiety-reduction training, gamified into a duration ladder
• Real conversation practice, not just staring at a screen — the AI roleplay partner responds like an actual interviewer, date, or coworker, so you rehearse the whole interaction, not only the gaze
• A scenario library grounded in real situations — openers and reps for the exact settings that trigger social anxiety, not generic confidence slogans
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