Turning shortcomings into challenges: Brain-computer interfaces for games

Entertainment Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 85-94

  Nijholt, Anton ^a   Bos, Danny Plass Oude ^a   Reuderink, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain computer interfacing; Game design; Multimodal interaction

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACING; CONTROL MECHANISM; GAME DESIGN; MULTI-MODAL INTERACTIONS; NEUROFEEDBACK; POTENTIAL GAMES;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 70749159695     PISSN: 18759521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.entcom.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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