Paper Info
Title
A P300-based brain-computer interface aimed at operating electronic devices at home for severely disabled people.
Abstract
The present study aims at developing and assessing an assistive tool for operating electronic devices at home by means of a P300-based brain-computer interface (BCI). Fifteen severely impaired subjects participated in the study. The developed tool allows users to interact with their usual environment fulfilling their main needs. It allows for navigation through ten menus and to manage up to 113 control commands from eight electronic devices. Ten out of the fifteen subjects were able to operate the proposed tool with accuracy above 77 %. Eight out of them reached accuracies higher than 95 %. Moreover, bitrates up to 20.1 bit/min were achieved. The novelty of this study lies in the use of an environment control application in a real scenario: real devices managed by potential BCI end-users. Although impaired users might not be able to set up this system without aid of others, this study takes a significant step to evaluate the degree to which such populations could eventually operate a stand-alone system. Our results suggest that neither the type nor the degree of disability is a relevant issue to suitably operate a P300-based BCI. Hence, it could be useful to assist disabled people at home improving their personal autonomy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/s11517-014-1191-5
Med. Biol. Engineering and Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Brain–computer interfaces, Electroencephalography, P300 event-related potentials, People with disabilities, Communication aids for disabled
Communication Aids for Disabled,Autonomy,Brain–computer interface,Electronics,Human–computer interaction,Engineering,Novelty
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
52
10
1741-0444
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.70
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rebeca Corralejo1262.06
Luis F Nicolás-Alonso2100.70
Daniel Álvarez321225.22
Roberto Hornero460367.74