Title
Exploration of an EEG-Based Cognitively Adaptive Training System in Virtual Reality
Abstract
Virtual Reality (VR) is effective in various training scenarios across multiple domains, such as education, health and defense. However, most of those applications are not adaptive to the real-time cognitive or subjectively experienced load placed on the trainee. In this paper, we explore a cognitively adaptive training system based on real-time measurement of task related alpha activity in the brain. This measurement was made by a 32-channel mobile Electroencephalography (EEG) system, and was used to adapt the task difficulty to an ideal level which challenged our participants, and thus theoretically induces the best level of performance gains as a result of training. Our system required participants to select target objects in VR and the complexity of the task adapted to the alpha activity in the brain. A total of 14 participants undertook our training and completed 20 levels of increasing complexity. Our study identified significant differences in brain activity in response to increasing levels of task complexity, but response time did not alter as a function of task difficulty. Collectively, we interpret this to indicate the brain's ability to compensate for higher task load without affecting behaviourally measured visuomotor performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/VR.2019.8797840
2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)
Keywords
Field
DocType
H.1.2 [Models and Principles]: User/Machine Systems—Human Factors,H.5.1 [Multimedia Information Systems]: Artificial—Augmented and Virtual Realities,Virtual Reality,Cognitively Adaptive Training,Electroencephalography,Alpha Activity
Computer vision,Virtual reality,Computer science,Training system,Cognitive psychology,Response time,Brain activity and meditation,Artificial intelligence,Cognition,Electroencephalography
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2642-5246
978-1-7281-1378-4
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arindam Dey120523.43
Alex Chatourn250.41
Mark Billinghurst35357542.78