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 ...

One of the most important factors driving the development of memory during childhood is mnemonic control, or the capacity to initiate and maintain the processes that guide encoding and retrieval operations. The ability to selectively attend to and encode relevant stimuli is a particularly useful form of mnemonic control, and is one that undergoes marked improvement over childhood. We hypothesiz...

Does familiarity arise from direct access to memory representations (a mnemonic account) or from inferences and diagnostic cues (an attributional account)? These theoretically distinct explanations can be difficult to distinguish in practice, as is shown by the positivity effect, the increase in feelings of familiarity that accompanies positive emotion. Experiment 1 manipulated mnemonic and att...

We studied two interactive (functional and intentional interactivity) and immersive (technical and psychological immersion) devices with a personal 3D viewer (360° vision and environmentally ego-centered) and their effects on the explicit long-term memories of the subjects (4 groups of 30 students for a total of 120 subjects) (2007 and 2012). We have tested memory, communication and feeling of ...

It is a commonly held belief that a familiar melody can increase memory for informatio n. The effects of presentation rate (fast versus slow) and presentation mode (spoken versus sung) on word recall were examined. First, a pilot experiment was conducted in order to test words for comprehensibility and frequency. In the central experiment, undergraduate volunteers were tested for word recall af...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To validate the practicality of focused echocardiography with A-F mnemonic performed by non-specialists in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS). DESIGN This prospective observational study was conducted in the Emergency Room within 12 months period. Study population consisted of consecutive patients with preliminary diagnosis of an ACS. The following data were...

How to choose a strong but still easily memorable password? An often recommended advice is to memorize a random sentence (the mnemonic) and to concatenate the words’ initials: a so-called mnemonic password. The paper in hand analyzes the effectiveness of this advice—in terms of the obtained password strength—and sheds light on various related aspects. While it is infeasible to obtain a sufficie...