RESEARCH
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Seminar Series
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments hosts a wide range of seminars during the academic year to enhance our educational program, to explore new areas of research with colleagues from other institutions, and to give our graduate students an opportunity to present their research. For more information, please contact Ellen Currin at ecurrin@duke.edu.
Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Workshop & hands-on seminar
May 17th 2012
g.tec medical engineering Austria and the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Durham, North Carolina, USA
BCI research is one of the most fascinating fields in neuroscience. Mental tasks or focused attention lead to changes in the brain’s activity patterns which can be measured, analyzed and classified. The transformation of such changes into a control signal allows to communicate with or to control external devices just by thinking. An amazing technology helping patients who are about to lose any other ability to interact with their environment. This workshop informs about the major methodological approaches, technical issues, application examples, opportunities and limitations, current trends and more.
This workshop is intended for people interested in learning the new skill of BCI communication and for people who are interested in combining BCI technology in their field of expertise. The workshop contains material about human computer interaction, biosignal analysis in off-line and real-time mode, rehabilitation, biomedical and electrical engineering, computer sciences and Virtual Reality. In a practical session an introduction of hard- and software used for research and development will be given. Participants can perform live experiments such as P300-spelling, motor imagery BCI for rehabilitation and SSVEP control.
Program |
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welcome & introduction to the four major methodological approaches of BCI Keynote held by Dr. Chandra Throckmorton: “A statistical approach to improving accuracy and communication rate with BCI’s”. | 10:00
11:45 | The keynote will be held by Dr. Chandra Throckmorton; She received her BSEE degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and her MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Duke University. Dr. Throckmorton is a Senior Research Scientist in the ECE Department at Duke University, and she is a lead researcher on several statistical signal processing algorithm development efforts. The topic will be “A statistical approach to improving accuracy and communication rate with BCI’s” Keynote held by Dr. Chandra Throckmorton: |
lunch | 12:30 |
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introduction to hard- and software hands-on session: BCI live experiments final discussions & questions | 13:30
14:00 16:00 | Dr. Cristoph Guger, the CEO of g.tec medical engineering GmbH is working on EEG, ECoG and spike based BCI projects within g.tec, will give a theoretical overview about BC’s and will also hold the practical sessions. They are involved in EC projects like Vere, Renachip, ALIAS, Brainable, Decoder and Better, and will also talk about these projects. |
May 17, 2012 |
| Special thanks to Leslie Collins, Ph.D., the local host and organizer of the Brain-Computer Interface workshop. |
115 Teer Building |
| Attendance is free of charge, but registration is required because the space is limited. Please contact Barbara Vogt, e-mail: vogt@gtec.at
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