Mind-Controlled Music Player for Disabled
From: Medical Design Technology - 01/30/2014

Imagine controlling a music player just by looking at your laptop. Engineers
from the Department of Systems and Control Engineering and the Centre for
Biomedical Cybernetics at the University of Malta led by Prof. Kenneth
Camilleri are doing just that. They have created a brain-controlled music
player after having studied the best way to obtain the desired brain
response, work which was presented at the 6th International IEEE/EMBS Neural
Engineering Conference in San Diego, California by team member Dr. Owen
Falzon.

The system works by reading the brain activity of a user. The brain works by
sending electrical signals; these are picked up by electrodes placed at
specific positions on the scalp through a process known as
electroencephalography (EEG). These EEG recordings are then used to convert
patterns of electrical brain activity into computer commands. The commands
control the music player without the need of any physical movement; the user
just needs to look at the right box. The program figures out where the user
is looking through his or her brain patterns, allowing the music player to be
controlled.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2014/01/mind-controlled-music-player-disabled

Links:
Kenneth Camilleri
http://www.um.edu.mt/eng/sce/staff/kennethcamilleri

Owen Falzon
https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/owenfalzon