TY - JOUR
T1 - Noninvasive brain-computer interfaces for augmentative and alternative communication
AU - Akcakaya, Murat
AU - Peters, Betts
AU - Moghadamfalahi, Mohammad
AU - Mooney, Aimee R.
AU - Orhan, Umut
AU - Oken, Barry
AU - Erdogmus, Deniz
AU - Fried-Oken, Melanie
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) promise to provide a novel access channel for assistive technologies, including augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems, to people with severe speech and physical impairments (SSPI). Research on the subject has been accelerating significantly in the last decade and the research community took great strides toward making BCI-AAC a practical reality to individuals with SSPI. Nevertheless, the end goal has still not been reached and there is much work to be done to produce real-world-worthy systems that can be comfortably, conveniently, and reliably used by individuals with SSPI with help from their families and care givers who will need to maintain, setup, and debug the systems at home. This paper reviews reports in the BCI field that aim at AAC as the application domain with a consideration on both technical and clinical aspects.
AB - Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) promise to provide a novel access channel for assistive technologies, including augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems, to people with severe speech and physical impairments (SSPI). Research on the subject has been accelerating significantly in the last decade and the research community took great strides toward making BCI-AAC a practical reality to individuals with SSPI. Nevertheless, the end goal has still not been reached and there is much work to be done to produce real-world-worthy systems that can be comfortably, conveniently, and reliably used by individuals with SSPI with help from their families and care givers who will need to maintain, setup, and debug the systems at home. This paper reviews reports in the BCI field that aim at AAC as the application domain with a consideration on both technical and clinical aspects.
KW - Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
KW - brain-computer interface (BCI)
KW - electroencephalography (EEG)
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U2 - 10.1109/RBME.2013.2295097
DO - 10.1109/RBME.2013.2295097
M3 - Article
C2 - 24802700
AN - SCOPUS:84900463657
SN - 1937-3333
VL - 7
SP - 31
EP - 49
JO - IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
JF - IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
M1 - 6684304
ER -