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It fascinated me to see the data that people average their gaze slightly downward (expected, we are taller than most our prey), and slightly to the right. Do we
by dweekly 10y ago
It fascinated me to see the data that people average their gaze slightly downward (expected, we are taller than most our prey), and slightly to the right. Do we all have mild torticolis?
People also don't look up or behind them and especially don't look up and behind which is why rides e.g. at Disney leave pretty much all the rigging out in the open above and behind. Which makes the rides extra interesting if you know where to look.
- lotyrin 10y agoI wonder if it's an artifact of the resting sitting position when driving a vehicle. A dataset of where the resting head position is for people from locales which drive on different sides of the road, and of people with differing hand-dominance would be interesting.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoCould equally be influenced by UI familiarity - MS Windows, KDE, Android, at least, default to system tray and clock on the right. Mouse hand, or related artefact of dominance of right-handedness ... I'd expect a lot of VR users to be young gamers who don't yet drive?
- derefr 10y agoRe: slightly to the right, an anecdote—when I got laser eye surgery, I felt a short jolt of pain when my left eye was lazed that I didn't feel in my right. I mentioned this afterward; the nurse said that this is very common, it's always the left eye that hurts more (regardless of which eye is done first, etc.), and nobody is quite sure why. That's all to say: the wiring of our optic nerves and visual cortices are seemingly quite symmetric—but there's more to the eye than its connection to the brain.