Title
An implicit brain computer interface supported by gaze monitoring for virtual therapy
Date Issued
01 October 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Tohoku University
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Advanced Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) paradigms aim to solve some problems as BCI illiteracy and unfamiliarity of the subjects to be able to control their elicited motor imagery (MI) successfully, hence improving training time and performance of BCI systems. This work evaluates the effect and performance of an Implicit BCI supported by the Gaze Monitoring (IBCI-GM) paradigm for virtual rehabilitation therapy of patients suffering from partial or total paralysis of their upper limbs; this paradigm also was compared with alternative forms of advanced BCI methods such as Virtual Reality-based BCI (VR-BCI) with a head-mounted display (HMD) and a computer screen (CS). Eight subjects participated in the experiments; four subjects tested the VR-BCI with a CS, and the rest of them tested both BCI advanced methods (IBCI-GM and VR-BCI with an HMD). The subjects were asked to control a virtual arm through MI of flexion and extension movements. The VR-BCI HMD was the approached best method; however, IBCI-GM had significant results and was more practical for users, but it depends on the ability to perform eye movements to be applied by patients. Therefore, these methods should be tested with more subjects to have definitive results.
Start page
2829
End page
2832
Volume
2019-October
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias médicas, Ciencias de la salud
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85076719431
Source
Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
ISSN of the container
1062922X
Conference
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 2019
Sponsor(s)
*This work was supported by the Strategic Award, Wellcome Trust-Imperial College Centre for Global Health Research (100693/Z/12/Z); and by Fondecyt from Concytec, Peru (Contract 112-2017).
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