Convenient hardware for non-invasive BCI
Hardware traditionally used for capturing brain activity, especially EEG - which is most popular BCI technique for today - is very cumbersome. BCI systems based on such hardware may satisfy the disabled, but if we want to be successfull in entertaiment & games industry, those devices are unacceptable.
Because of this a lot of companies like NeuroSky developed "head-ready" devices that can be just weared-on and played-with, but these devices cannot yet compete with traditional systems for EEG recording: they usually rely only on a very few forehead sensors, which mean brain signals registered by these devices are very artifacted and do not provide as much info as signals captured from the whole head would.
I found one interesting device which is a "head-ready" helmet with sensors located on head area, and researches who developed it successfully used it to navigate a car. You can watch demo on YouTube:
19.08.2009 Update!
We have a new member in our group Aureli Soria-Frisch who works in Starlab. They developed a dry, wireless EEG system Enobio. It also employs only forehead sensors, but looks much more professional than similar products.
(this is not an advertisiment - I want to collect info about good BCI hardware in this topic!)
Because of this a lot of companies like NeuroSky developed "head-ready" devices that can be just weared-on and played-with, but these devices cannot yet compete with traditional systems for EEG recording: they usually rely only on a very few forehead sensors, which mean brain signals registered by these devices are very artifacted and do not provide as much info as signals captured from the whole head would.
I found one interesting device which is a "head-ready" helmet with sensors located on head area, and researches who developed it successfully used it to navigate a car. You can watch demo on YouTube:
19.08.2009 Update!
We have a new member in our group Aureli Soria-Frisch who works in Starlab. They developed a dry, wireless EEG system Enobio. It also employs only forehead sensors, but looks much more professional than similar products.
Views: 183
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Aureli Soria-Frisch on -
Actually we are about starting a project for integrating ENOBIO in a BCI open plattform.
-
-
Permalink Reply by Alexandra Elbakyan on -
What about software,
Will you use existing open source solutions for BCI / EEG signal processing like OpenVibe or you are going to develop something new? -
-
Permalink Reply by Aureli Soria-Frisch on
-
Actually new development but using existent software parts. Result will be open source as well.
You can get more information on the project web site:
http://www.asterics.eu/ -
-
Permalink Reply by zulqarnain zahid on -
hi
how can i get a dual channel hardware for bci i.e open eeg modular -
-
Permalink Reply by Udochi Okeke on -
This is such a great group. I'm learning so much about BCI. Thanks, Alexandra!
-
-
Permalink Reply by Aureli Soria-Frisch on
-
If you want to be updated on ENOBIO research and further development you can join the ENOBIO forum at: http://enobio.starlab.es/
-
© 2013 Created by Springer.
