Writing through a robot: A proof of concept for a brain-machine interface

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1314-1317

  Pérez Marcos, Daniel ^a,b   Buitrago, Jaime Alberto ^c   Velásquez, Fáber Danilo Giraldo ^c  

^a INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DEL QUINDÍO   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Brain machine interface; Human robot interaction; P300 evoked potential; Remote writing; Robot operator

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACE; CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; NON-INVASIVE; PROOF OF CONCEPT; REAL TIME; REMOTE ENVIRONMENT; ROBOT ARMS; ROBOT OPERATOR; WHITE BOARD;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOPHYSICS;

ROBOTIC ARMS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMMUNICATION AID; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OPERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; ROBOTICS; SPELLING; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

BRAIN; COMMUNICATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ROBOTICS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WRITING;

EID: 82755197996     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

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