Adaptive personalisation for researcher-independent brain body interface usage

Abstract

In this case study, we report what we believe to be the first prolonged in-situ use of a brain-body interface for rehabilitation of individuals with severe neurological impairment due to traumatic brain injury with no development researchers present. We attribute this success to the development of an adaptive cursor acceleration algorithm based on screen tiling, which we combined with an adaptable user interface to achieve inclusive design through personalisation for each individual. A successful evaluation of this approach encouraged us to leave our Brain-Body Interface in the care settings of our evaluation participants with traumatic brain injury, where it was used with support from health care professionals and other members of participants' care circles.

Developing Rehabilitation Robots for the Brain Injured

“…The robotic arm described in this section was developed and used as a live demonstration at the ICCIT'2001 conference in New Jersey where a quadriplegic individual picked up a cup to his mouth to show, how we can use a brain body interface and operate a robotic arm. Since then the researchers have concentrated on mainly communication, recreation and controlling the environment using brain body interfaces (Gnanayutham et al, 2009b). Now the researchers feel it's time to help this group of the disabled who perhaps need robotics than other motor impaired individuals.…”