Collaborators

• Society for the Physically Disabled, Singapore.

Grants

• Samsung DigitAll Hope Grant, 2004

System Description

Brainy Communicator is a communication system with which one can input texts or commands to a computer by brainwave. It is based on classification of event-related potentials from electroencephalograph (EEG). . The Brainy Communicator can benefit those who have lost the use of limbs, such as patients who suffer from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and tetraplegia.

Demo Description

This video demonstration shows a word speller with a virtual keyboard on the screen. The user can select any symbol from the 44 keys by simply looking at that symbol.

Related Links

For technical details, please refer to:
Haihong Zhang, Chuanchu Wang, Cuntai Guan, "Towards asynchronous brain-computer interfaces: A P300-based approach with statistical models," Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, Aug 23-26, 2007 pp. 5067-5070