Brain-computer interfaces: beyond medical applications
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appearing, such as Uncle Milton’s The Force Trainer and Mattel’s Mindflex. The “Commercially
Available BCI Technology” sidebar describes more of these products and their purposes. As a
result, desciplines such as gaming and humancomputer interaction, are motivating inventive
BCI research themes and paradigms. Even the definition of BCI has broadened to include any�…
by the IEEE Computer Society 0018-9162/12/$31.00 � 2012 IEEE COVER FEATURE use are
appearing, such as Uncle Milton’s The Force Trainer and Mattel’s Mindflex. The “Commercially
Available BCI Technology” sidebar describes more of these products and their purposes. As a
result, desciplines such as gaming and humancomputer interaction, are motivating inventive
BCI research themes and paradigms. Even the definition of BCI has broadened to include any�…
Brain-computer interaction has already moved from assistive care to applications such as gaming. Improvements in usability, hardware, signal processing, and system integration should yield applications in other nonmedical areas.
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