Brain Computer Interfaces for inclusion

Abstract

In this paper, we describe an intelligent graphical user interface (IGUI) and a User Application Interface (UAI) tailored to Brain Computer Interface (BCI) interaction, designed for people with severe communication needs. The IGUI has three components; a two way interface for communication with BCI2000 concerning user events and event handling; an interface to user applications concerning the passing of user commands and associated device identifiers, and the receiving of notification of device status; and an interface to an extensible mark-up language (xml) file containing menu content definitions. The interface has achieved control of domotic applications. The architecture however permits control of more complex 'smart' environments and could be extended further for entertainment by interacting with media devices. Using components of the electroencephalogram (EEG) to mediate expression is also technically possible, but is much more speculative, and without proven efficacy. The IGUI-BCI approach described could potentially find wider use in the augmentation of the general population, to provide alternative computer interaction, an additional control channel and experimental leisure activities. General Terms Experimentation KeywordsBrain Computer Interfaces, user interface, domotic control, entertainment.

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“…As depicted above, focusing a flickering stimulus exhibits frequency-specific photic driving that can be detected over occipital areas and subsequently translated into a specific command [20]. This specific visual attention-based BCI approach has been successfully validated in different series of tests on healthy subjects [20–24] and is currently adapted to disabled users in the EU-project BRAIN (http://www.brain-project.org/) (for first beginnings see [25, 26]). The latter efforts correspond to the classic goal of BCI research and make up the principal focus of most research groups, to provide severely disabled users with communication and control [20].…”

Entrepreneurial Activities in Europe - Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities

“…screen readers or screen magnifiers) that allow disabled people location-independent access to computer systems (Hill, 2011;Caldwell, 2011) and brain-computer interfaces that allow the operation of computer systems or the control of artificial limbs with one's mind (McCullagh et al, 2010;Wolpaw and Wolpaw, 2012;Carmena, 2012). While the first two technologies already have been successfully commercialised the latter is still to be explored extensively.…”

Realistic expectations with brain computer interfaces

“…The IGUI offers a bridge from the BCI platform used in our research (BCI2000, 2012McCullagh et al, 2010) and a universal application interface (UAI) (McCullagh et al, 2011) to common home-based interface technologies (such as X10 and UPnP) allowing users to control any of the devices using these well-established protocols. The smart home and the communications and entertainment package that were developed incorporated components of several systems that have already been developed for non-BCI interfaces.…”