Publications by Michele Tavella

TiD-Introducing and Benchmarking an Event-Delivery System for Brain-Computer Interfaces

In this paper, we present and analyze an event distribution system for brain-computer interfaces. Events are commonly used to mark and describe incidents during an experiment and are therefore critical for later data analysis or immediate real-time process ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Clinical evaluation of BrainTree, a motor imagery hybrid BCI speller

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Serafeim Perdikis, Michele Tavella

Objective. While brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) for communication have reached considerable technical maturity, there is still a great need for state-of-the-art evaluation by end-users outside laboratory environments. To achieve this primary objective, i ...

Institute of Physics2014

Transferring brain-computer interfaces beyond the laboratory: Successful application control for motor-disabled users

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Serafeim Perdikis, Luca Tonin, Tom Edward Carlson, Andrea Biasiucci, Michele Tavella, Alberto Molina Arribere, Marco Creatura

OBJECTIVES: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are no longer only used by healthy participants under controlled conditions in laboratory environments, but also by patients and end-users, controlling applications in their homes or clinics, without the BCI exp ...

Elsevier2013

A supervised recalibration protocol for unbiased BCI

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Robert Leeb, Serafeim Perdikis, Michele Tavella

One important source of performance degradation in BCIs is bias towards one of the mental classes. Recent literature has focused on the general problem of classification accuracy drop, identifying non-stationarity as the generating factor, thus leading to ...

2011

Phase-based features for Motor Imagery Brain-Computer Interfaces

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Michele Tavella, Benjamin Hamner

Motor imagery (MI) brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) translate a subject’s motor intention to a command signal. Most MI BCIs use power features in the mu or beta rhythms, while several results have been reported using a measure of phase synchrony, the phase ...

IEEE2011

Are we ready? Issues in transferring BCI technology from experts to users

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Serafeim Perdikis, Luca Tonin, Tom Edward Carlson, Andrea Biasiucci, Michele Tavella

Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are no longer only used by healthy subjects under control conditions in laboratory environments, but by patients controlling applications at their homes, without the BCI experts around. But are the technology and the field ...

Verlag der Technischen Universitaet Graz2011

Tools for brain-computer interaction: a general concept for a hybrid BCI

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Luca Tonin, Michele Tavella

The aim of this work is to present the development of a hybrid Brain-Computer Interface (hBCI) which combines existing input devices with a BCI. Thereby, the BCI should be available if the user wishes to extend the types of inputs available to an assistive ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2011

The Role of Shared-Control in BCI-based Telepresence

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Serafeim Perdikis, Luca Tonin, Michele Tavella

This paper discusses and evaluates the role of shared control approach in a BCI-based telepresence framework. Driving a mobile device by using human brain signals might improve the quality of life of people suffering from severely physical disabilities. By ...

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On The Road To A Neuroprosthetic Hand: A Novel Hand Grasp Orthosis Based on Functional Electrical Stimulation

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Heather Christine Klug, Robert Leeb, Michele Tavella, Miguel Joaquin Gubler

To patients who have lost the functionality of their hands as a result of a severe spinal cord injury or brain stroke, the development of new techniques for grasping is indispensable for reintegration and independency in daily life. Functional Electrical S ...

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Towards Natural Non-Invasive Hand Neuroprostheses for Daily Living

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb, Michele Tavella

In this paper we show how healthy subjects can operate a non-invasive asynchronous BCI for controlling a FES neuroprosthesis and manipulate objects to carry out daily tasks in ecological conditions. Both, experienced and novel subjects proved to be able to ...

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