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Local and Remote Cooperation with Virtual and Robotic Agents: A P300 BCI Study in Healthy and People Living with Spinal Cord Injury

Guger, Cristoph; Hintermuller, Cristoph; Tidoni, Emmanuele; Abu-Alqumsan, Mohammad; Leonardis, Daniele; Kapeller, Christoph; Guger, Christoph; Fusco, Gabriele; Hinterm�ller, Christoph; Peer, Angelika; Frisoli, Antonio; Tecchia, Franco; Bergamasco, Massimo; Aglioti, Salvatore Maria

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Authors

Cristoph Guger

Cristoph Hintermuller

Emmanuele Tidoni

Mohammad Abu-Alqumsan

Daniele Leonardis

Christoph Kapeller

Christoph Guger

Gabriele Fusco

Christoph Hinterm�ller

Antonio Frisoli

Franco Tecchia

Massimo Bergamasco

Salvatore Maria Aglioti



Abstract

© 2001-2011 IEEE. The development of technological applications that allow people to control and embody external devices within social interaction settings represents a major goal for current and future brain-computer interface (BCI) systems. Prior research has suggested that embodied systems may ameliorate BCI end-user's experience and accuracy in controlling external devices. Along these lines, we developed an immersive P300-based BCI application with a head-mounted display for virtual-local and robotic-remote social interactions and explored in a group of healthy participants the role of proprioceptive feedback in the control of a virtual surrogate (Study 1). Moreover, we compared the performance of a small group of people with spinal cord injury (SCI) to a control group of healthy subjects during virtual and robotic social interactions (Study 2), where both groups received a proprioceptive stimulation. Our attempt to combine immersive environments, BCI technologies and neuroscience of body ownership suggests that providing realistic multisensory feedback still represents a challenge. Results have shown that healthy and people living with SCI used the BCI within the immersive scenarios with good levels of performance (as indexed by task accuracy, optimizations calls and Information Transfer Rate) and perceived control of the surrogates. Proprioceptive feedback did not contribute to alter performance measures and body ownership sensations. Further studies are necessary to test whether sensorimotor experience represents an opportunity to improve the use of future embodied BCI applications.

Citation

Hintermuller, C., Guger, C., Tidoni, E., Abu-Alqumsan, M., Leonardis, D., Kapeller, C., …Aglioti, S. M. (2017). Local and Remote Cooperation with Virtual and Robotic Agents: A P300 BCI Study in Healthy and People Living with Spinal Cord Injury. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 25(9), 1622-1632. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2016.2626391

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 3, 2016
Online Publication Date Dec 23, 2016
Publication Date Sep 1, 2017
Deposit Date Feb 3, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
Print ISSN 1534-4320
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 25
Issue 9
Pages 1622-1632
DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2016.2626391
Keywords BCI P300, spinal cord injury, virtual reality, teleoperation, body illusions, tendon Vibration
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/882291
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2016.2626391

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