as a visually impaired person i find it hard to make eye contact and in a way i think its a little pointless. Making eye contact is body language that sighted people use. It is not needed if you cant see, it serves no purpose.
I feel like the equivalent would be just to say the persons name if you are addressing them. If you are just trying to make eye contact with a blind person from across a room its just kinda pointless.

I’m going to go against the prevailing opinion here and say that eye contact is important and should be encouraged. I think that subconsciously people respond more positively when a blind person (or anyone for that matter) makes eye contact for two reasons. First, eye contact is such a deeply ingrained social norm that it just seems off when someone does not make eye contact (even subconsciously generating feelings like mistrust and the thought that the other person is doing something shady). Secondly, eye contact helps reinforce the idea that someone is paying attention, which generates more positive feelings towards the other person. Sure, once people know that the person is blind, they can remind themselves that lack of eye contact isn’t important, but that’s causing the person to consciously fight their subconsciously-generated feelings, which is extremely difficult for most people to do.
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That all being said, developing a system to assist with eye contact would be... a nontrivial task to put it lightly.

I am curious to know what your initial thoughts are for the mechanism of assisting eye gaze control. How would you achieve this? Audio cues?
Unfortunately, for people with blindness this might not be a practical idea. It would mainly only be beneficial for sighted people to feel more confortable by having a blind person make eye contact, and there are other ways to create that comfort that are less invasive to us.
However, if the idea included eye tracking of other individuals that could accurately gauge another persons eye gaze and inform blind people if they were being looked at directly by someone else, this might be more useful to a blind person. This kind of idea may also be of benefit to human-like machines to imitate more accurate facial expression.
I think the technology needed for human-like robots could bear a lot of crossover for vision augmenting computer systems that could be used by some blind people. Keep that thinking cap on!

I don't see the point in researching this. To make eye contact, all I have to do is look towards the source of their voice and then look up a few inches. It's really not that hard. Since I had vision until just a few years ago, I still do my best to track the people I'm conversing with out of sheer habit along with an attempt to be polite and attentive, though sometimes I'll turn my ear towards them to hear them better.

I'm not sure. But it seems to me, the main value of eye contact is knowing if the other person is making it back. Like, making eye contact with someone across a crowded room. The important thing to know is is she looking back? Is she avoiding your gaze? I can't see how a system could help with that.

It really doesn't seem necessary. Personally I try to look in the direction of the speaker, they'll pretty well understand if you aren't spot on