Toward self-paced brain-computer communication: Navigation through virtual worlds

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 675-682

  Scherer, Reinhold ^a   Lee, Felix ^a   Schlögl, Alois ^a,b   Leeb, Robert ^a   Bischof, Horst ^a   Pfurtscheller, Gert ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b FRAUNHOFER FIRST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface (BCI); Classification; Electroencephalogram (EEG); Motor imagery; Self paced operation mode; Virtual reality (VR)

Indexed keywords

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GAME THEORY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE (BCI); COMPUTER GAMES; FEEDBACK TRAINING; MOTOR IMAGERY; VIRTUAL WORLDS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER NETWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 38349071564     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.903709     Document Type: Article

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