I think the hardest for me will be trying to tell if they are looking up at their right or mine.
Difficult, difficult.
The thing about which direction they look always bothered me too, but for different reasons. 
The idea is that people look to their left when accessing memories and to their right when accessing imagination.
That may be true in the vast majority of cases, but I think there could always be exceptions. What if a person is really imaginative in the way they think, and use their imagination as a 'jump-start' for their memory? What if the memory is so clear it takes no effort to recall it, but they are imagining how you might react to what they're saying?
What if they're imagining you naked to calm themselves down? 
The 'science' is probably pretty accurate, but the brain is complex and so are people. Would you condemn someone to the electric chair based on which direction they looked when you asked them a question?
http://www.ict4us.com/r.kuijt/en_nonverbal.htm
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