Sensorimotor Rhythm Brain-Computer Interface Switch to Operate Assistive Technology
The purpose of this research is to develop tools to help people who are paralyzed. These tools are called brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). BCIs would allow a person to use brain signals to operate technology. Specifically this project's goal is to design a BCI to operate a switch.
|Study Design:||Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
|Official Title:||Sensorimotor Rhythm Brain-Computer Interface Switch to Operate Assistive Technology|
- Accuracy of using the BCI as a switch for scanning. [ Time Frame: 20 times over 7 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:||January 2011|
|Study Completion Date:||December 2012|
|Primary Completion Date:||December 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)|
|Experimental: Pilot Testing||
Device: Brain Computer Interface Switch
Subjects will wear an EEG cap for 1-2 hours typical per session and use the brain computer interface to operate assistive technology. Subjects will be asked to participate in 14-20 sessions.
The investigators want to make a BCI that can be used to operate commercially available technologies for communication, environmental control or computer access. The BCI would replace a switch to let people operate these technologies without moving. However, investigators need people to test the BCI so they can determine how effective it is in replacing a switch.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01117727
|United States, Michigan|
|University of Michigan Direct Brain Interface Project|
|Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48108|
|Principal Investigator:||Jane Huggins, PhD||University of Michigan|