Interactive Reading Using Low Cost Brain Computer Interfaces

Loizides, Fernando; Naughton, Liam; Wilson, Paul; Loizou, Michael; Yang, Shufan; Hartley, Thomas; Worrallo, Adam; Zaphiris, Panayiotis

Abstract

This work shows the feasibility for document reader user applications using a consumer grade non-invasive BCI headset. Although Brain Computer Interface (BCI) type devices are beginning to aim at the consumer level, the level at which they can actually detect brain activity is limited. There is however progress achieved in allowing for interaction between a human and a computer when this interaction is limited to around 2 actions. We employed the Emotiv Epoc, a low-priced BCI headset, to design and build a proof-of-concept document reader system that allows users to navigate the document using this low cast BCI device. Our prototype has been implemented and evaluated with 12 participants who were trained to navigate documents using signals acquired by Emotive Epoc.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference
• Start Date: Sep 25, 2017
• End Date: Sep 29, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Sep 21, 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Deposit Date: Mar 12, 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 450-454
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Series Number: 10516
• Series ISSN: 0302-9743
• Book Title: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2017 Proceedings, Part IV
• ISBN: 9783319680583
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68059-0_49
• Keywords: Document reader, Brain computer interface, Document navigation
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2752547