Is information transfer rate a suitable performance measure for self-paced brain interface systems?

Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 212-216

  Fatourechi, Mehrdad ^a   Mason, Steven G ^b   Birch, Gary E ^a,b,c   Ward, Rabab K ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Neil Squire Society   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface; Information transfer rate; Self paced brain interface

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACES; INFORMATION TRANSFER RATE; SELF PACED BRAIN INTERFACES;

DATA TRANSFER RATES;

EID: 44449087504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSPIT.2006.270799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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