PURPOSE To propose a screening protocol that identifies requisite sensory, motor, cognitive and communication skills for people with locked-in syndrome (PLIS) to use the RSVP Keyboard™ brain-computer interface (BCI). METHOD A multidisciplinary clinical team of seven individuals representing five disciplines identified requisite skills for the BCI RSVP Keyboard™. They chose questions and subte...

Using brain-computer interfaces (BCI) humans can select letters or other targets on a computer screen without any muscular involvement. An intensively investigated kind of BCI is based on the recording of visual event-related brain potentials (ERP). However, some severely paralyzed patients who need a BCI for communication have impaired vision or lack control of gaze movement, thus making a BCI...

Advances in neural interfaces have demonstrated remarkable results in the direction of replacing and restoring lost sensorimotor function in human patients. Noninvasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are popular due to considerable advantages including simplicity, safety, and low cost, while recent advances aim at improving past technological and neurophysiological limitations. Taking into ac...

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 co...

Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) are a natural extension to Human Computer Interaction (HCI) technologies. BCI is especially useful for people suffering from diseases, such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) which cause motor disabilities in patients. To evaluate the effectiveness of BCI in different paradigms, the need of benchmark BCI datasets is increasing rapidly. Although, such datasets...

Brain – computer interface (BCI) systems are typically used to provide disabled users with the functionality normally afforded by conventional interfaces. As BCI progress continues, BCIs may become useful for healthy users in specific situations. This paper briefly reviews existing BCI applications for healthy users and discusses several relevant considerations. Many potential applications are ...

While brain computer interface (BCI) can be employed with patients and healthy subjects, there are problems that must be resolved before BCI can be useful to the public. In the most popular motor imagery (MI) BCI system, a significant number of target users (called "BCI-Illiterates") cannot modulate their neuronal signals sufficiently to use the BCI system. This causes performance variability a...

In recent years, new research has brought the field of electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain-computer interfacing (BCI) out of its infancy and into a phase of relative maturity through many demonstrated prototypes such as brain-controlled wheelchairs, keyboards, and computer games. With this proof-of-concept phase in the past, the time is now ripe to focus on the development of practical BCI t...

The theoretical analysis for difficulties of application modern brain computer interface (BCI) systems has made us to understand the basic problem for using BCI: users should continuously be in a condition of mental concentration on a some amount of the certain mental tasks. Our idea is for the purpose of improving the BCI system by exempting the user from conscious concentration on the definit...