Publications by José del Rocio Millán Ruiz

Customizing the human-avatar mapping based on EEG error related potentials during avatar-based interaction

Olaf Blanke, José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Fumiaki Iwane, Thibault Serge Mario Porssut

Objective. A key challenge of virtual reality (VR) applications is to maintain a reliable human-avatar mapping. Users may lose the sense of controlling (sense of agency), owning (sense of body ownership), or being located (sense of self-location) inside th ...

2024

An application-based taxonomy for brain–computer interfaces

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Mahsa Shoaran, Nicolas Vachicouras

The term 'brain-computer interface' (BCI) is widely used. However, even among experts, its meaning can sometimes be unclear 1-3. Lack of clarity from the term has real-world implications: it can muddle regulatory guidelines, it may confuse investors, it ca ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2024

Inferring individual evaluation criteria for reaching trajectories with obstacle avoidance from EEG signals

Aude Billard, José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Fumiaki Iwane

During reaching actions, the human central nerve system (CNS) generates the trajectories that optimize effort and time. When there is an obstacle in the path, we make sure that our arm passes the obstacle with a sufficient margin. This comfort margin varie ...

Nature Portfolio2023

EEG-Based Online Regulation of Difficulty in Simulated Flying

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Ping-Keng Jao

Adaptively increasing the difficulty level in learning was shown to be beneficial than increasing the level after some fixed time intervals. To efficiently adapt the level, we aimed at decoding the subjective difficulty level based on Electroencephalograph ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

EEG error-related potentials encode magnitude of errors and individual perceptual thresholds

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Aleksander Sobolewski, Fumiaki Iwane

Error-related potentials (ErrPs) are a prominent electroencephalogram (EEG) correlate of performance monitoring, and so crucial for learning and adapting our behavior. It is poorly understood whether ErrPs encode further information beyond error awareness. ...

Cell Press2023

EEG signature of breaks in embodiment in VR

Olaf Blanke, José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Fumiaki Iwane, Thibault Serge Mario Porssut

The brain mechanism of embodiment in a virtual body has grown a scientific interest recently, with a particular focus on providing optimal virtual reality (VR) experiences. Disruptions from an embodied state to a less- or non-embodied state, denominated Br ...

2023

Learning to control a BMI-driven wheelchair for people with severe tetraplegia

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Bastien Orset, Kyuhwa Lee, Serafeim Perdikis, Luca Tonin

Mind-controlled wheelchairs are an intriguing assistive mobility solution applicable in complete paralysis. Despite progress in brain-machine interface (BMI) technology, its translation remains elusive. The primary objective of this study is to probe the h ...

Cell Press2022

Shared Intelligence for Robot Teleoperation via BMI

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Luca Tonin

This article proposes a novel shared intelligence system for brain-machine interface (BMI) teleoperated mobile robots where user's intention and robot's intelligence are concurrent elements equally participating in the decision process. We designed the sys ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

User Adaptation to Closed-Loop Decoding of Motor Imagery Termination

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Kyuhwa Lee, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Bastien Orset

One of the most popular methods in non-invasive brain machine interfaces (BMI) relies on the decoding of sensorimotor rhythms associated to sustained motor imagery. Although motor imagery has been intensively studied, its termination is mostly neglected. O ...

2021

Invariability of EEG error-related potentials during continuous feedback protocols elicited by erroneous actions at predicted or unpredicted states

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Inaki Asier Iturrate Gil, Fumiaki Iwane

Objective. When humans perceive an erroneous action, an EEG error-related potential (ErrP) is elicited as a neural response. ErrPs have been largely investigated in discrete feedback protocols, where actions are executed at discrete steps, to enable seamle ...

2021