Controlling a device via a brain-computer interface (BCI) requires the participant to look and to split the attention between the device and the BCI feedback, which is partly contradictory. Therefore, a stimulation system based on 6 coin-motors is developed, which provides a tactile illusion as BCI feedback. Several experiments are conducted to optimize the illusion parameters and to check the influence on the EEG. Furthermore, 6 healthy BCI subjects compared visual with tactile feedback in online MI recordings, and no performance degradation was found.
Olaf Blanke, José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Fumiaki Iwane
Silvestro Micera, Simone Romeni, Laura Toni, Fiorenzo Artoni