Region based Brain Computer Interface for a home control application

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2015 Aug:2015:1075-8. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318551.

Abstract

Environment control is one of the important challenges for disabled people who suffer from neuromuscular diseases. Brain Computer Interface (BCI) provides a communication channel between the human brain and the environment without requiring any muscular activation. The most important expectation for a home control application is high accuracy and reliable control. Region-based paradigm is a stimulus paradigm based on oddball principle and requires selection of a target at two levels. This paper presents an application of region based paradigm for a smart home control application for people with neuromuscular diseases. In this study, a region based stimulus interface containing 49 commands was designed. Five non-disabled subjects were attended to the experiments. Offline analysis results of the experiments yielded 95% accuracy for five flashes. This result showed that region based paradigm can be used to select commands of a smart home control application with high accuracy in the low number of repetitions successfully. Furthermore, a statistically significant difference was not observed between the level accuracies.

MeSH terms

  • Brain
  • Brain-Computer Interfaces*
  • Disabled Persons
  • Electroencephalography
  • Humans
  • User-Computer Interface