Stimuli design for SSVEP-based brain computer-interface

Authors

  • Marcin Jukiewicz Division of Metrology And Optoelectronic, Institute of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Poznan University of Technology

Abstract

The paper presents a process of stimuli design
for SSVEP-based brain computer-interface. A brain computerinterface
can be used in direct communication between a brain
and a computer, without using muscles. This device is useful for
paralyzed people to communicate with the surrounding environment.
Design process should provide high accuracy recognition
of presented stimuli and high user comfort. It is widely known
how to make stimuli for BCI which are using high-grade EEG.
Over recent years cheaper EEGs are becoming more and more
popular, for example OpenBCI, which uses ADS1299 amplifier.
In this article we review past works of other authors and compare
it with our results, obtained using EEG mentioned before. We
try to confirm that it is possible to use successfully OpenBCI in
BCI projects.

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2016-06-20

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