Designing a brain-computer interface controlled video-game using consumer grade EEG hardware

Marijn van Vliet; Arne Robben; Nikolay Chumerin; Nikolay V. Manyakov; Adrien Combaz; Marc M. Van Hulle

doi:10.1109/BRC.2012.6222186

Designing a brain-computer interface controlled video-game using consumer grade EEG hardware

Marijn van Vliet^*
, Arne Robben
, Nikolay Chumerin
, Nikolay V. Manyakov
, Adrien Combaz
, Marc M. Van Hulle

^*Corresponding author for this work

Not published at Aalto University

KU Leuven

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

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Abstract

This paper describes our first attempt to port a brain-computer interface (BCI), created in a research lab and running on expensive equipment, to consumer grade equipment, allowing one to reach a much broader audience and raise public awareness of this new technology. With the BCI, the user can perform a complicated task through mind control only: playing a tactical video-game. Reliable control is accomplished by adapting a Steady-State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP) classifier to be robust enough to cope with the signal quality of the consumer grade electroencephalography (EEG) device used, i.e. the Emotiv EPOC. The difference in performance of the game running on research grade EEG equipment versus the Emotiv EPOC is examined. The game was tested by a broad audience during a public event and was well received.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2012 ISSNIP Biosignals and Biorobotics Conference
Subtitle of host publication	Biosignals and Robotics for Better and Safer Living, BRC 2012
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BRC.2012.6222186
Publication status	Published - 30 Jul 2012
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	ISSNIP Biosignals and Biorobotics Conference: Biosignals and Robotics for Better and Safer Living - Manaus, Brazil Duration: 9 Jan 2012 → 11 Jan 2012

Conference

Conference	ISSNIP Biosignals and Biorobotics Conference: Biosignals and Robotics for Better and Safer Living
Abbreviated title	BRC
Country/Territory	Brazil
City	Manaus
Period	09/01/2012 → 11/01/2012

Keywords

brain-computer interfacing
electroencephalography
Emotiv EPOC
games
steady-state visual evoked potentials

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van Vliet, M, Robben, A, Chumerin, N, Manyakov, NV, Combaz, A & Van Hulle, MM 2012, Designing a brain-computer interface controlled video-game using consumer grade EEG hardware. in 2012 ISSNIP Biosignals and Biorobotics Conference: Biosignals and Robotics for Better and Safer Living, BRC 2012., 6222186, ISSNIP Biosignals and Biorobotics Conference: Biosignals and Robotics for Better and Safer Living, Manaus, Brazil, 09/01/2012. https://doi.org/10.1109/BRC.2012.6222186

Designing a brain-computer interface controlled video-game using consumer grade EEG hardware. / van Vliet, Marijn; Robben, Arne; Chumerin, Nikolay et al.
2012 ISSNIP Biosignals and Biorobotics Conference: Biosignals and Robotics for Better and Safer Living, BRC 2012. 2012. 6222186.

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