Lab Research: Drexel Students Create Neural Interface
There’s been a heavy spate of interest at the university level lately to create modified interfaces for controlling videogames; the most exciting of these involves neural interfaces, or brain-computer interfaces. Such research is seen leading toward providing benefit to victims of paralysis and other disabilities.
Students at Drexel University’s Replay Laboratory have experimented with hooking up a neuro-imaging device that fits on the forehead with a videogame. The result is a lab creation called Lazy Brains. Stephanie Abrams with the CBS affiliate in Philadelphia filed a report:
Professors at Drexel think it could be a tool to help students with ADHD focus. They also say since this device will eventually detect more brain activity, it may one day give the severely disabled who can’t talk a way to communicate directly from their brain to the computer.
Grad students who helped create the game and are listed in her report include: Hasan Ayaz, Jordan Santell, and Aaron Bohenick. More information on the Replay research lab at Drexel is available at their website.
Tags: Aaron Bohenick, BCI, Drexel University, Hasan Ayaz, Jordan Santell, Lazy Brains, Philadelphia, Replay Lab, Stephanie Abrams
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July 3, 2008 11:12 am
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By Jordan, July 9, 2008 @ 9:35 pm
Hey, I’m Jordan Santell from the Lazybrains project and came across your site via a search. Awesome blog about educational gaming! I’m going to have to add this to my RSS feeds.
By John Rice, July 10, 2008 @ 10:04 am
Jordan, glad to make your acquaintance. Great work y’all are doing over there at Drexel.
JR
By sharatchandra, August 16, 2008 @ 6:42 am
hey guys im applying for the FALL of 09 to Drexel for MS/Phd in ECE dept.Gr8 work im really interested.
keep up the gr8 work.i have worked on neuromorphic image sensors and published a paper too in the same area. hope to see u guys at Drexel soon.