An asynchronously controlled EEG-based virtual keyboard: Improvement of the spelling rate

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 979-984

  Scherer, Reinhold ^a   Müller, Gernot R ^a   Neuper, Christa ^a,b   Graimann, Bernhard ^a   Pfurtscheller, Gert ^a,c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Asynchronous control; Brain computer interface (BCI); Motor imagery; Virtual keyboard (VK)

Indexed keywords

BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE; SPELLING DEVICE; TRANSFER RATE;

BRAIN MODELS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; MODULATION;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; TRAINING; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORD PROCESSING;

EID: 2442677913     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.827062     Document Type: Article

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