Big possibilities in brain-computer interface
From: Arizona State University - 12/14/2010
Host: Ted Simons

An Arizona State University research team led by Stephen Helms Tillery is
working with the Children’s Neuroscience Institute at Phoenix Children’s
Hospital on advances in brain-computer interface technology. 

The goal is to help people who have lost movement and communication abilities
due to severe brain disorders caused by spinal cord injury, stroke, severe
cerebral palsy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or similar neurological
disorders. 

Researchers are refining an interface system that enables people to use their
own brain signals to communicate or interact indirectly with their
environment by controlling a computer. 

Helms Tillery, an assistant professor in the School of Biological and Health
Systems Engineering, one of ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, was
interviewed about the research and the potential of this technological
progress. 

View the video at:
http://www.azpbs.org/horizon/detailvid.php?id=2682

Links:
Stephen Helms Tillery
https://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/247223

SensoriMotor Research Group
http://smorg.asu.edu/PeoplePages/SMoRGPeople.html