New Directions

Hybrid BCIs

Last Updated on Saturday, 31 December 2011 16:19 Written by Administrator Monday, 10 May 2010 09:39

The section on "BCI Basics" describes fundamental principles in BCI research. This section describes new directions - ideas and systems that did not exist five years ago. One example is a "hybrid BCI." Recently, several groups have combined BCIs with other interfaces, resulting in a "hybrid BCI" that can capitalize on the strengths of both systems. A paper published in April 2010 summarizes different hybrid BCIs. approaches, and can be downloaded by clicking on this link.

Please click here to download a recent paper about hybrid BCIs.

Some hybrid BCIs combine a signal from the brain with a signal from another part of the body. For example, the article that you can download presents a BCI combined with a heart rate detector and a BCI combined with an eye tracker. These alternate interfaces are BNCIs, at least according to the working definition of BNCI. Hence, hybrid BCI research is very important to integrate BCIs and BNCIs.

This section of the page is still being developed, and we look forward to input from you, the BCI community. There are many other exciting new directions, such as BCIs for rehabilitation, dry electrodes, new devices, and BCIs for gamers and other healthy users.

For additional resources, please see:

www.future-bnci.org. Please go to "About BCIs" and click the "New Directions" Tab. You can download a *free* copy of a recent article about hybrid BCIs, and download the roadmap (which addresses hybrid BCIs), and find other information.

From that website, you can click on "References" and see many other references about hybrid BCI work.

http://videolectures.net/bbci09_pfurtscheller_thb/ This is a lecture that Prof. Gert Pfurtscheller gave about hybrid BCIs in July 2009.

http://www.tobi-project.org/sites/default/files/public/Workshop/Proceeding-TOBI2010.pdf. These proceedings of the TOBI workshop in Graz in Feb 2010 have many examples of hybrid BCI systems.

This workshop was supported in part by two grants: the Information and Communication Technologies Coordination and Support action “FutureBNCI”, Project number ICT-
2010-248320; and the Information and Communication Technologies Collaborative Project action “BrainAble”, Project number ICT-2010-247447.