All Articles Tagged As: interfaces

Students Develop 'Mind-Control' Interface to Play Video Games Without a Controller (8/19/2008)

Students have taken game controller innovation beyond motion control with a "hands-off" approach and developed an interface that allows players to execute actions using only their mind. ...> Full Article

Scientists to study synthetic telepathy (8/16/2008)

Researchers get grant to develop communication system based on thoughts, not speech ...> Full Article

Towards zero training for brain-computer interfacing (8/13/2008)

New technique bypasses the need for the time-consuming calibration ...> Full Article

Computer scientist turns his face into a remote control (6/27/2008)

New work at nexus of facial expression recognition research and automated tutoring ...> Full Article

Researchers develop neural implant that learns with the brain (6/26/2008)

Researchers have devised a way for computerized devices not only to translate brain signals into movement but also to evolve with the brain as it learns. ...> Full Article

Mind over matter: Monkey feeds itself using its brain (5/29/2008)

A monkey has successfully fed itself with fluid, well-controlled movements of a human-like robotic arm by using only signals from its brain, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh ...> Full Article

Each finger can be moved separately (4/23/2008)

A new prosthetic hand is being tested at the Orthopedic University Hospital in Heidelberg / Grip function almost like a natural hand ...> Full Article

Helping Your Brain Be All That It Can Be: Neuro Research Works to Combine Human Brain Capabilities with Computer Data Crunching Power (3/29/2008)

As fantastic as computers are at processing mountains of data at lightning speed, they still can't beat the human brain at, for instance, detecting a friend's face in a crowded airport terminal, or even at more specialized tasks such as detecting suspicious objects in X-ray scans of checked baggage. The human brain can do these tasks not just very well but also very rapidly, within a fraction of a second, says Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientist Maximilian Riesenhuber, Ph.D., of the Laboratory for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. However, while the brain's visual system can perform the actual detection task very rapidly, even for multiple images presented at the same time, turning these decisions into behavioral responses is much slower. ...> Full Article

Magnetic levitation gives computer users sense of touch (3/6/2008)

Computers, long used as tools to design and manipulate three-dimensional objects, may soon provide people with a way to sense the texture of those objects or feel how they fit together, thanks to a haptic, or touch-based, interface developed at Carnegie Mellon University. ...> Full Article

Put Your Mind to It: Researcher to Give Presentation on Thought-Controlled Prosthetic Devices (2/22/2008)

There really is something to the phrase "mind over matter." Just ask Dr. Todd Kuiken, researcher from Northwestern University, whose work gives hope to amputees. ...> Full Article

Artificial Retinal Implant Project Grows (2/16/2008)

With its expansion to Europe, the only long-term retinal prosthesis study under way worldwide offers hope for treating blindness. ...> Full Article

Scientists are Developing 'Robotic Rats' That Will Be Able to Aid in Rescue Missions and Planetary Research (2/12/2008)

A new initiative, bringing together nine research groups from seven countries, including teams of robotics and brain researchers from Europe, Israel, and the U.S., has recently been set up with the aim of imitating nature. ...> Full Article

Optical Scientists Add New, Practical Dimension to Holography (2/7/2008)

Optical scientists have broken a technological barrier by making three-dimensional holographic displays that can be erased and rewritten in a matter of minutes. ...> Full Article

Monkey's Thoughts Makes Robot Walk from Across the Globe (1/16/2008)

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, the brain activity of a monkey has been used to control the real-time walking patterns of a robot halfway around the world, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center. ...> Full Article

Researcher Helps Patients with Complete Paralysis, or Locked-in Syndrome, Communicate (1/15/2008)

Peggy Chun is a popular artist known for her bold watercolor paintings that capture the spirit of her Hawaiian home. But in 2002, the painter was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. This debilitating neurological disorder progressively destroys a person's motor neurons. As a victim of this incurable disease, Chun can feel, see, smell, taste, think and imagine, but can no longer move in any way. She is, in the parlance of the medical profession, "locked-in." ...> Full Article

Researchers discover they can read thoughts to decipher what a person is actually seeing (12/11/2007)

Following ground-breaking research showing that neurons in the human brain respond in an abstract manner to particular individuals or objects, University of Leicester researchers have now discovered that, from the firing of this type of neuron, they can tell what a person is actually seeing. ...> Full Article

Tiny third-eye cameras will let blind people 'see' (11/30/2007)

The bionic eye is one step closer to reality, thanks in part to important research undertaken at Queensland University of Technology. ...> Full Article

Researchers Create Robot Driven by Moth's Brain (11/21/2007)

The research offers insights into the mechanism of the brain and how it works. ...> Full Article

Thoughts, not arms and hands, can operate machines (11/14/2007)

New devices may soon improve the lives of physically handicapped people. ...> Full Article

New Technology Can Be Operated By Thought (11/10/2007)

Neuroscientists have significantly advanced brain-machine interface (BMI) technology to the point where severely handicapped people who cannot contract even one leg or arm muscle now can independently compose and send e-mails and operate a TV in their homes. They are using only their thoughts to execute these actions. ...> Full Article

Microsoft patents electronic brain interface system (10/21/2007)

Microsoft develops electronic brain interface that 'learns' what a person wants. ...> Full Article

Brain Input Aids Devices That Move Injured Or Artificial Limbs (10/19/2007)

Neuroscientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a novel approach for measuring and deciphering brain activity that holds out promise of providing improved movements of natural or artificial limbs by those who have been injured or paralyzed. ...> Full Article

Discovery of retinal cell type ends four-decade search (10/12/2007)

Research may be first step in creation of electronic interfaces to eyes and brain. ...> Full Article

Research helps convert brain signals into action (10/4/2007)

Researchers have developed a new algorithm to help create prosthetic devices that convert brain signals into action in patients who have been paralyzed or had limbs amputated. ...> Full Article