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Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'05)
Artificial Grapheme-Color Synesthesia for Wearable Task Support
Osaka, Japan
October 18-October 21
ISBN: 0-7695-2419-2
Nicolas Plouznikoff, Human-Machine Interactions Laboratory (LIHM), Department of Industrial Engineering ?cole Polytechnique de Montr?al, Montreal, Canada
Alexandre Plouznikoff, Human-Machine Interactions Laboratory (LIHM), Department of Industrial Engineering ?cole Polytechnique de Montr?al, Montreal, Canada
Jean-Marc Robert, Human-Machine Interactions Laboratory (LIHM), Department of Industrial Engineering ?cole Polytechnique de Montr?al, Montreal, Canada

This paper presents the benefits of generating an artificial visual synesthesia through a wearable computer. Following a short introduction to remind the need for seamless human-wearable computer interactions, this paper makes the case for drawing upon synesthesia, a combination of the senses naturally occurring in a small portion of the population, to augment everyday entities and more precisely to enrich written graphemes. We present the rationale behind our research and summarize the functionality, architecture and implementation of our current prototype. Preliminary results suggest that this kind of artificial synesthesia improves short term memory recall and visual information search times.

Citation:
Nicolas Plouznikoff, Alexandre Plouznikoff, Jean-Marc Robert, "Artificial Grapheme-Color Synesthesia for Wearable Task Support," iswc, pp.108-113, Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'05), 2005
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