HCI 2015
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HCI International 2015
Los Angeles, CA, USA
2-7 August 2015

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T08: Brain neural computer interface and confluence for medical applications

Sunday, 2 August 2015, 14:00 - 17:30

Günter Edlinger (short bio)
g.tec medical engineering GmbH/Guger Technologies OG, Austria

Christoph Guger (short bio)
g.tec medical engineering GmbH/Guger Technologies OG, Austria

Nicholas Anderson (short bio)
Cortech Solutions Inc., United States

Objectives:

The Brain-Machine/Computer Interface (BCI) research area is a vital and fast expanding field. BCIs have been developed during the last years for people with severe disabilities to improve their quality of life. However, recently BCI applications have been also used in different research areas e.g. in the field of rapid cortical mapping, rehabilitation after stroke or virtual reality. The Tutorial will discuss necessary prerequisites to successfully perform BCI experiments in non-invasive and invasive ways as well as pros and cons of the various methods. Live demonstrations of BCI control will allow to understand the progress of the technology.

Content and benefits:

insights into recent hardware (wireless/non wireless) for BCI research
insights into the software for BCI research enabling participants to run their own experiments
giving participants the chance to analyze their BCI performance
demonstrations of applications
Assessment of consciousness (mindBEAGLE), stroke rehabilitation (recoveriX)
discussing advantages/disadvantages of dry/wet sensors
discussing non-invasive and invasive BCI approaches
using BCI technologies in clinical environment (cortiQ)

Target Audience:

The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers and interested audience to describe and demonstrate the options available in the field of Brain/Neural Machine Interfaces. Especially usability and reliability of BCI control allows now developing and displaying more advanced applications. We think that such a workshop will be very well accepted from the audience working in the area of HCI combining different modalities for interactions including also the medical field.

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Brief Biographical sketches

Günter Edlinger studied control engineering at the University of Technology Graz and carried out research work at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (Prof. Pfurtscheller) at the University of Technology Graz. He worked there as an assistant professor and teacher and received his PhD degree in 1998. The topic of his PhD work was the design of a High Resolution EEG. He is co-founder of gtec. He is responsible for R&D with special emphasis on the development and production of medical systems since more than 17 years.

Christoph Guger studied biomedical engineering at the University of Technology Graz and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. Then he carried out research work at the Department of Medical Informatics (Prof. Pfurtscheller) at the University of Technology Graz and received his PhD degree in 1999. The topic of his PhD work was the design of an EEG-based brain-computer interface. This was the first real-time BCI system with continuous feedback. He also developed the real-time analysis with common spatial patterns which is still the fastest and most accurate approach for oscillatory BCIs and developed also a P300 BCI with very high accuracy and speed. In the last years he worked also with ALS and tetraplegic patients in different countries.

Nicholas Anderson, PhD earned his graduate degree from Washington University in Saint Louis in 2008. He has been working with g.tec since 2011 and is now the g.tec product line manager at our partner Cortech Solutions. He is interested in devices and software that interface with and decode signals from the brain for brain-computer interfaces and clinical applications.

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