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We study the extent to which vibrotactile stimuli delivered to the head of a user can serve as a platform for a brain computer interface (BCI) paradigm. Six and ten head position setups are used to evoke combined somatosensory and auditory (via bone-conduction effect) brain responses, in order to define a multimodal tactile and bone-conduction-auditory brain computer interface (tbcaBCI) suitable for ALS-TLS patients with bad vision and suffering from an ear-blocking-syndrome. Experimental results on users performing online tbcaBCI, using stimuli with a moderately fast stimulus-onset-asynchrony (SOA), validate the tbcaBCI paradigm, while the feasibility of the concept is illuminated through information-transfer-rate analyses.
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This research was supported in part by the Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme no. 121803027 of The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication in Japan, and by KAKENHI, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science grant no. 12010738. We also acknowledge the technical support from YAMAHA Sound and IT Development Division in Hamamatsu, Japan.
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Rutkowski, T.M., Mori, H., Mori, K. (2014). Multi-command Tactile and Bone-Conduction-Auditory Brain-Computer Interface. In: Guger, C., Vaughan, T., Allison, B. (eds) Brain-Computer Interface Research. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09979-8_10
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