[tippa123]

Thank you! With the perception of maturity within HCI, there is a resistance to look at these fundamental building blocks. Instead, they are often taken as fact based on consensus, even though they absolutely can and should be challenged.

My take on the bias toward the “latest craze” is that it's probably a result of finite attention spans, as well as a fear of falling behind, which leaves little space for fundamental concepts.

A good example for ScrollPods was to support scrolling only through up/down head movements initially but many users asked for left/right head turns to map to vertical scrolling as well. Once implemented, the horizontal axis felt much more natural and less tiring. Thinking about it deeper, this makes perfect sense from a biological and anatomical perspective. I mean humans would probably be way more concerned with an ambush from a predator from the side or behind rather than above which shows in our peripheral vision for horizontal versus vertical visual field.