Interacting with mobiles and portable devices using brain waves has become a reality with the recent advances in the brain-computer interfaces (BCI)

Portable brain-computer interfaces (BCI) headsets that available today in the market provides users with unique ability and experience to interact with their mobile phones and tablets. Researchers try to use BCI outside the labs by implementing and developing applications for BCI mostly on Android platform, which are of different types and purposes, such as communication purposes, controlling external devices and for entertainment such as games. But typically, those BCI related applications are somewhat limited in terms of their scope of control, i.e. the users can only interact with one application at a time and cannot switch to other application without touching the device screen. This paper addresses the development of a MotionMouse, a prototype that provides users with an alternative to fully interact and control an Android tablet by controlling not just one, but many different application types. The evaluation of the prototype was based on ISO 9241-11:2018 standards with a result that demonstrate the ability of controlling and generating touch events on the device using Emotiv EPOC+ with effectiveness of 63.82% (accuracy of the correct target) and efficiency of 3.22 clicks per minute. In addition, the participants also found that it was easy to perform the tasks with few showed excitements during the experiment.

Students especially at universities undergo a lot of pressure and stress, and mental health is something that must not be taken lightly, especially at the time of pandemic as we are experiencing now. The need for us to look into the mental health is constantly reminded everywhere. There are a lot of ways to reduce stress such as meditation, getting involved in sports and one of the most practiced methods is by listening to music. Music has been indeed proved to have positive effects on humans and that it aids healing process such as binaural beats and Solfeggio frequency. These frequencies of music have impact towards the brainwave. This study reports on how the design thinking process was used to better identify the most suitable means on integrating mobile Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) as an application to know the impacts of different type of frequencies of music on the human brain to reduce stress. Besides suggesting a generic guideline to develop an application for mobile BCI, this study also provides us insights into the readiness of mobile BCI as an application for common usage.