Brain-Machine Interface Learns about Its User
From: Robotics Trends - 02/24/2011

Mind control of objects is exhausting. Now, a new brain-machine interface
reads the user’s mental intention, allows for rest periods, and enables
multitasking. 

You may have heard of virtual keyboards controlled by thought, brain-powered
wheelchairs, and neuro-prosthetic limbs. Once the mind is trained to send the
right kind of signals, operating the interface can be downright tiring for
the mind—a fact that prevents the technology from being of much use to people
with disabilities, among others. Professor José del R. Millán and his team at
the Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have a
solution: Engineer the system so that it learns about its user, allows for
periods of rest, and even multitasking. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.roboticstrends.com/research_academics/article/brain_machine_interface_learns_about_its_user

Links:
José del R. Millán
http://people.epfl.ch/jose.millan

Tools for Brain Computer Interaction
http://www.tobi-project.org/