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Where is my head? Knowing head orientation in space is necessary to estimate the extent of the visual field in tasks requiring visual feedback such as driving or manual materials handling. Visually guided tasks are generally dependent on head and eye movements for visual acquisition of the target, and head movements are of significant importance when target eccentricity from the neutral reference point is large. The aim of the present work was to investigate head orientation in space in hand pointing tasks and to model the head response. Standing subjects were required to direct their gaze at one of three targets, equally distributed (vertically) in the sagittal plane. The task was performed while standing a) with the arms next to the body, b) holding a load in a static condition, c) aiming at targets with a heavy or light load held in the hands. Movements of the head and the body segments were recorded by the motion capture systems.