The design of a point-and-click system by integrating a self-paced brain-computer interface with an eye-tracker

IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 590-602

  Yong, Xinyi ^a   Fatourechi, Mehrdad ^a   Ward, Rabab K ^a   Birch, Gary E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Neil Squire Society   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive classifier; brain computer interface (BCI); electroencephalogram; eye tracker; hybrid BCI

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CLASSIFIERS; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE (BCI); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE-TRACKER; HYBRID BCI;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84857063410     PISSN: 21563357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JETCAS.2011.2175589     Document Type: Article

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