A telepresence robotic system operated with a P300-based brain-computer interface: Initial Tests with ALS patients

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4476-4480

  Escolano, Carlos ^a   Murguialday, Ander Ramos ^b,c   Matuz, Tamara ^b   Birbaumer, Niels ^b,d   Minguez, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

^d IRCCS SAN CAMILLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALS PATIENTS; BI-DIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION; BRAIN ACTIVITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; NEURAL ACTIVITY; NEUROREHABILITATION; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; TELEPRESENCE; TELEPRESENCE SYSTEMS;

BRAIN; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MEDICAL COMPUTING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION AID; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; ROBOTICS;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; COMMUNICATION AIDS FOR DISABLED; COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, P300; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; ROBOTICS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 78650833540     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626045     Document Type: Conference Paper

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