HCJan 30, 2015
Airborne Ultrasonic Tactile Display Brain-computer Interface -- A Small Robotic Arm Online Control StudyTomasz M. Rutkowski, Hiromu Mori, Takumi Kodama et al.
We report on an extended robot control application of a contact-less and airborne ultrasonic tactile display (AUTD) stimulus-based brain-computer interface (BCI) paradigm, which received last year The Annual BCI Research Award 2014. In the award winning human communication augmentation paradigm the six palm positions are used to evoke somatosensory brain responses, in order to define a novel contactless tactile BCI. An example application of a small robot management is also presented in which the users control a small robot online.
NCApr 16, 2014
Spatial Tactile Brain-Computer Interface Paradigm Applying Vibration Stimuli to Large Areas of User's BackTakumi Kodama, Shoji Makino, Tomasz M. Rutkowski
We aim at an augmentation of communication abilities of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients by creating a brain-computer interface (BCI) which can control a computer or other device by using only brain activity. As a method, we use a stimulus-driven BCI based on vibration stimuli delivered via a gaming pad to the user's back. We identify P300 responses from brain activity data in response to the vibration stimuli. The user's intentions are classified according to the P300 responses recorded in the EEG. From the results of the psychophysical and online BCI experiments, we are able to classify the P300 responses very accurately, which proves the effectiveness of the proposed method.