Mobile Phone Mind Control
From: Technology Review - 03/31/2010
By: Kristina Grifantini

NeuroPhone is the first step toward hands-free phone operation 

A new device from Dartmouth College lets users select and dial a contact's
phone number just by thinking about it. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/24993/?a=f

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NeuroPhone: Brain-Mobile Phone Interface using a Wireless EEG Headset
From: Dartmouth University

Neural signals are everywhere just like mobile phones. We propose to use
neural signals to control mobile phones for hands-free, silent and effortless
human-mobile interaction. Until recently, devices for detecting neural
signals have been costly, bulky and fragile. We present the design,
implementation and evaluation of the NeuroPhone system, which allows neural
signals to drive mobile phone applications on the iPhone using cheap
off-the-shelf wireless electroencephalography (EEG) headsets. We demonstrate
a mind-controlled address book dialing app, which works on similar principles
to P300-speller brain-computer interfaces: the phone flashes a sequence of
photos of contacts from the address book and a P300 brain potential is
elicited when the flashed photo matches the person whom the user wishes to
dial. EEG signals from the headset are transmitted wirelessly to an iPhone,
which natively runs a lightweight classifier to discriminate P300 signals
from noise. When a person's contact-photo triggers a P300, his/her phone
number is automatically dialed. NeuroPhone breaks new ground as a
brain-mobile phone interface for ubiquitous pervasive computing. We discuss
the challenges in making our initial prototype more practical, robust, and
reliable as part of our on-going research. 

Video
http://sensorlab.cs.dartmouth.edu/index.html

Paper
http://sensorlab.cs.dartmouth.edu/pubs/neurophone.pdf

Andrew T. Campbell
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~campbell/