Auditory Brain-Computer Interface Paradigm with Head Related Impulse Response-Based Spatial Cues

Author

Nakaizumi, Chisaki ; Mori, Kazuo ; Matsui, Takashi ; Makino, Shigeru ; Rutkowski, Tomasz M.

Author_Institution

Life Sci. Center of TARA, Univ. of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

2-5 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

806

Lastpage

811

Abstract

The aim of this study is to provide a comprehensive test of head related impulse response (HRIR) for an auditory spatial speller brain-computer interface (BCI) paradigm. The study is conducted with six users in an experimental set up based on five Japanese hiragana vowels. Auditory evoked potentials resulted with encouragingly good and stable "aha-" or P300-responses in real-world online BCI experiments. Our case study indicated that the auditory HRIR spatial sound reproduction paradigm could be a viable alternative to the established multi-loudspeaker surround sound BCI-speller applications, as far as healthy pilot study users are concerned.

Keywords

audio user interfaces; auditory evoked potentials; brain-computer interfaces; electroencephalography; natural language processing; Japanese hiragana vowels; P300-responses; aha-responses; auditory HRIR spatial sound reproduction paradigm; auditory brain-computer interface paradigm; auditory evoked potentials; auditory spatial speller brain-computer interface paradigm; head related impulse response-based spatial cues; multiloudspeaker surround sound BCI-speller applications; real-world online BCI experiments; Accuracy; Brain-computer interfaces; Educational institutions; Electrodes; Electroencephalography; Headphones; Visualization; Auditory BCI; EEG; P300; brain signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SITIS.2013.131

Filename

6727281