Inter-stimulus Interval Study for the Tactile Point-pressure Brain-computer Interface
This is an incremental study for improving tactile BCI usability by optimizing stimulus timing parameters.
The study investigated how inter-stimulus interval (ISI) affects classification accuracy in a tactile point-pressure brain-computer interface (tpBCI), finding no significant differences between ISI settings of 120 ms and 300 ms across various averaging scenarios.
The paper presents a study of an inter-stimulus interval (ISI) influence on a tactile point-pressure stimulus-based brain-computer interface's (tpBCI) classification accuracy. A novel tactile pressure generating tpBCI stimulator is also discussed, which is based on a three-by-three pins' matrix prototype. The six pin-linear patterns are presented to the user's palm during the online tpBCI experiments in an oddball style paradigm allowing for "the aha-responses" elucidation, within the event related potential (ERP). A subsequent classification accuracies' comparison is discussed based on two ISI settings in an online tpBCI application. A research hypothesis of classification accuracies' non-significant differences with various ISIs is confirmed based on the two settings of 120 ms and 300 ms, as well as with various numbers of ERP response averaging scenarios.