Corralejo Rebeca, Nicolás-Alonso Luis F, Alvarez Daniel, Hornero Roberto
Biomedical Engineering Group, E.T.S.I. de Telecomunicación, Universidad de Valladolid, Paseo Belén 15, 47011, Valladolid, Spain,
Med Biol Eng Comput. 2014 Oct;52(10):861-72. doi: 10.1007/s11517-014-1191-5. Epub 2014 Aug 28.
The present study aims at developing and assessing an assistive tool for operating electronic devices at home by means of a P300-based brain-computer interface (BCI). Fifteen severely impaired subjects participated in the study. The developed tool allows users to interact with their usual environment fulfilling their main needs. It allows for navigation through ten menus and to manage up to 113 control commands from eight electronic devices. Ten out of the fifteen subjects were able to operate the proposed tool with accuracy above 77 %. Eight out of them reached accuracies higher than 95 %. Moreover, bitrates up to 20.1 bit/min were achieved. The novelty of this study lies in the use of an environment control application in a real scenario: real devices managed by potential BCI end-users. Although impaired users might not be able to set up this system without aid of others, this study takes a significant step to evaluate the degree to which such populations could eventually operate a stand-alone system. Our results suggest that neither the type nor the degree of disability is a relevant issue to suitably operate a P300-based BCI. Hence, it could be useful to assist disabled people at home improving their personal autonomy.
本研究旨在开发并评估一种借助基于P300的脑机接口(BCI)在家中操作电子设备的辅助工具。15名重度受损受试者参与了该研究。所开发的工具允许用户与日常环境进行交互,满足其主要需求。它允许通过十个菜单进行导航,并管理来自八个电子设备的多达113条控制命令。15名受试者中有10名能够以高于77%的准确率操作所提出的工具。其中8名受试者的准确率高于95%。此外,实现了高达20.1比特/分钟的比特率。本研究的新颖之处在于在实际场景中使用环境控制应用程序:由潜在的BCI终端用户管理真实设备。尽管受损用户可能无法在没有他人帮助的情况下设置此系统,但本研究朝着评估此类人群最终操作独立系统的程度迈出了重要一步。我们的结果表明,残疾类型和程度都不是适当地操作基于P300的BCI的相关问题。因此,它可能有助于在家中帮助残疾人提高他们的个人自主性。
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