Controlling a virtual body by thought in a highly-immersive virtual environment : A case study in using a brain-computer interface in a virtual-reality cave-like system

GRAPP 2007 - 2nd International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, Proceedings

Volumn AS, Issue IE/-, 2007, Pages 83-90

  Friedman, Doron ^a   Leeb, Robert ^b   Dikovsky, Larisa ^c   Reiner, Miriam ^c   Pfurtscheller, Gert ^b   Slater, Mel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Advanced user interfaces; Avatar; Brain computer interface; Cave; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED USER INTERFACES; AVATAR; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE; IMMERSIVE; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; INTERACTION DESIGN; QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGIES; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

CAVES; OPTICAL SENSORS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 67649960996     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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