Brain–computer interfaces for communication and rehabilitation

Hemodynamic brain-computer interfaces for communication and rehabilitation

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) are non-invasive methods for acquiring hemodynamic signals from the brain with the primary benefit of anatomical specificity of signals. Recently, there has been a surge of studies with NIRS and fMRI for the implementation of a brain-computer interface (BCI), for the acquisition, decoding and regulatio...

Brain Tangible Interfaces for Multimodal Rehabilitation

Adaptive Brain Interfaces for Communication and Control

This paper describes our work on a portable non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI), called Adaptive Brain Interfaces (ABI), that analysis online the user’s spontaneous electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from which a neural classifier recognizes 3 different mental states. The outputs of the classifier are used as mental commands to operate communication and control devices. Although still a...

Tangible Interfaces for Remote Communication and Collaboration

This thesis presents inTouch, a new device enabling long distance communication through touch. inTouch is based on a concept called Synchronized Distributed Physical Objects, which employs telemanipulation technology to create the illusion that distant users are interacting with a shared physical object. I discuss the design and prototype implementation of inTouch, along with control strategies...

Speech communication and multimodal interfaces

Within the area of advanced man-machine interaction, speech communication has always played a major role for several decades. The idea of replacing the convential input devices such as buttons and keyboard by voice control and thus increasing the comfort and the input speed considerably, seems that much attractive, that even the quite slow progress of speech technology during those decades coul...