Bringing BCI into everyday life: Motor imagery in a pseudo realistic environment

Stephanie Brandl; Johannes Höhne; Klaus Robert Muller; Wojciech Samek

doi:10.1109/NER.2015.7146600

Bringing BCI into everyday life: Motor imagery in a pseudo realistic environment

Stephanie Brandl, Johannes Höhne, Klaus Robert Muller, Wojciech Samek

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Abstract

Bringing Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) into everyday life is a challenge because an out-of-lab environment implies the presence of variables that are largely beyond control of the user and the software application. This can severely corrupt signal quality as well as reliability of BCI control. Current BCI technology may fail in this application scenario because of the large amounts of noise, nonstationarity and movement artifacts. In this paper, we systematically investigate the performance of motor imagery BCI in a pseudo realistic environment. In our study 16 participants were asked to perform motor imagery tasks while dealing with different types of distractions such as vibratory stimulations or listening tasks. Our experiments demonstrate that standard BCI procedures are not robust to theses additional sources of noise, implicating that methods which work well in a lab environment, may perform poorly in realistic application scenarios. We discuss several promising research directions to tackle this important problem.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 7th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2015
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	224-227
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467363891
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/NER.2015.7146600
Publication status	Published - 2015 Jul 1
Event	7th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2015 - Montpellier, France Duration: 2015 Apr 22 → 2015 Apr 24

Publication series

Name	International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER
Volume	2015-July
ISSN (Print)	1948-3546
ISSN (Electronic)	1948-3554

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Other	7th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2015
Country/Territory	France
City	Montpellier
Period	15/4/22 → 15/4/24

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Artificial Intelligence
Mechanical Engineering

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Brandl, S., Höhne, J., Muller, K. R., & Samek, W. (2015). Bringing BCI into everyday life: Motor imagery in a pseudo realistic environment. In 2015 7th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2015 (pp. 224-227). Article 7146600 (International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER; Vol. 2015-July). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/NER.2015.7146600

Bringing BCI into everyday life: Motor imagery in a pseudo realistic environment. / Brandl, Stephanie; Höhne, Johannes; Muller, Klaus Robert et al.
2015 7th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2015. IEEE Computer Society, 2015. p. 224-227 7146600 (International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER; Vol. 2015-July).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Brandl, S, Höhne, J, Muller, KR & Samek, W 2015, Bringing BCI into everyday life: Motor imagery in a pseudo realistic environment. in 2015 7th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2015., 7146600, International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER, vol. 2015-July, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 224-227, 7th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2015, Montpellier, France, 15/4/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/NER.2015.7146600

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