Keywords: Hardware , Body mnemonics, gestures, alternatice IO

ABSTRACT- Body Mnemonics is an interface design concept for portable devices that uses the body space of the user as an interface. In this system, information can be stored and subsequently accessed by moving a device to different locations around one?s body. The system is designed to ease cognitive load by relying on our proprioceptive sense and the use of the body image of the user as a mnemonic frame of reference. The hardware approach is to use motion sensing in the device itself. Two user studies were conducted to evaluate the feasibility of the system.

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Existing devices have limited input and output capabilities, making them cumbersome and hard to use when mobile. (?) Gestural interfaces have been demonstrated as a successful alternative to physical and on-screen buttons on handheld devices. Typical interfaces involve shaking and tilting the device to trigger different commands.
(?) Instead of looking at command gestures, we propose a system where the information is stored in the body space.