The study presented explores the extent to which tactile stimuli delivered to the ten digits of a BCI-naive subject can serve as a platform for a brain computer interface (BCI) that could be used in an interactive application such as robotic vehicle operation. The ten fingertips are used to evoke somatosensory brain responses, thus defining a tactile brain computer interface (tBCI). Experimental results on subjects performing online (real-time) tBCI, using stimuli with a moderately fast inter-stimulus-interval (ISI), provide a validation of the tBCI prototype, while the feasibility of the concept is illuminated through information-transfer rates obtained through the case study.
@article{arxiv.1305.4319,
title = {Multi-command Tactile Brain Computer Interface: A Feasibility Study},
author = {Hiromu Mori and Yoshihiro Matsumoto and Victor Kryssanov and Eric Cooper and Hitoshi Ogawa and Shoji Makino and Zbigniew R. Struzik and Tomasz M. Rutkowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.4319},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
Haptic and Audio Interaction Design 2013, Daejeon, Korea, April 18-19, 2013, 15 pages, 4 figures, The final publication will be available at link.springer.com