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Forget the Mouse Use your Brain to Drag and Click using a Brain-Computer
Interface (Look Mom No Hands!)
June 14th, 2006
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Carmen Vidaurre
Arbizu is and engineer from Pamplona that has designed an adaptable
interface that would use a cerebral interface also known as a
brain-computer interface (BCI) which would use signals from the brain to
control a computer. According to Ms. Vidaurre the general population
would be able to use the device. She first reported her ideas in a PhD
thesis with the Online Adaptive Classification for Brain-Computer
Interface.
What this
brain-computer interface (BCI) is designed around the use of
electroencephalograms (EEG) and some other brain signals as well. The
electrodes would be directly implanted into the brain.
The brain activity
before was not able to supply feedback. Vidaurre has made steps to using
BCI easier by making it a reciprocal training for both the computer and
the user.
In a press release
for this research the following was stated on the significance of her
research,” This is why, this PhD has designed, in a pioneering way, two
in-line adaptive classifications, within a completely adaptive interface
and capable of supplying feedback to inexpert individuals in the first
stages of its use. With this system, the interface and the individual
adjust to each other, one learning from the other in a reciprocal
manner. In this way it has been possible to eliminate the initial trial
sessions without feedback, thus diminishing the total skills acquisition
time and the individuals are able to find an operating strategy directly
with feedback.”
Who would use a
brain-computer interface? It is not likely that we will all be signing
up for the electrode implants any time soon. It will more than likely
be applied to paralyzed individuals first. According to Wikipedia, the
applications have been used in research in humans. One research project
two participants were able to use rudimentary BCI’s to play a game of
real-time game of Pong against each other. Wikipedia also said that
Matt Nagle is one of the first people to use this technology due to
paralysis. It helped to restore some functions.
While the
development of BCI is in its infancy, there is potential for science
fiction realities such as cyborgs that are half human and half robots,
like you would see in Star Trek.
Nicole Wilson
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