1. An appliance control apparatus comprising: an acceleration sensor which senses an acceleration resulting from a user motion; a recognition unit which recognizes a control-object apparatus and a control attribute set to the control-object apparatus from the acceleration sensed by the sensor; a control command generator which generates a control command according to the control attribute recognized by the recognition unit; and a transmitter which transmits the control command generated by the control command generator to the control-object apparatus recognized by the recognition unit.