Now, You Can Control Computer Commands by Thought
From: Economic Times of India - 01/08/2011

OpenViBE, a software platform that will enable users to communicate via their
thoughts with a computer or any other automated system, has been demonstrated
by French computer scientists. OpenViBE, which acts as an interface for
translating what happens in the brain into computer commands, makes writing
by thought possible, say researchers Yann Renard and Laurent Bonnet. A person
wearing an electroencephalogram cap can focus her attention on a letter that
she wants to spell out, and when this letter flashes, a particular brain wave
is generated, picked up, detected, and interpreted by the system. "OpenViBE
is a series of software libraries and modules written in C++ that can be
simply and effectively integrated in order to design real-time applications,"
the researchers say. "Programmer users can develop their own code, while
non-programmers can use the graphical interface." They say brain-computer
interfaces and OpenViBE could be used by researchers studying neurological
problems, clinicians assisting people with motor disabilities, and by video
game developers. 

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Links:
OpenViBE
http://openvibe.inria.fr/

Yann Renard
http://www.irisa.fr/bunraku/Bunraku_1.5.20/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=128&Itemid=71
http://bcimeeting.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Yann+Renard&highlight=yann

Laurent Bonnet
http://bcimeeting.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Laurent+Bonnet