Neuro-Muscular Engineering
Hesam Moradkhani; Vahid Shalchyan
Volume 10, Issue 4 , January 2017, , Pages 325-337
Abstract
P300 Speller as a most commonly used brain–computer interface (BCI) has been able to provide simple communication capabilities for people with severe motor or speech disabilities in order to have a better interaction with the outer world over the past years. Checker-board paradigm introduced by ...
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P300 Speller as a most commonly used brain–computer interface (BCI) has been able to provide simple communication capabilities for people with severe motor or speech disabilities in order to have a better interaction with the outer world over the past years. Checker-board paradigm introduced by Townsend et al. [1] is one of the most practical alternatives for row-column paradigm, enhancing the performance of the speller by preventing row-column induced errors. In this study, we investigated the effect of substituting presentation of an emoji stimulus instead of flashing the characters in the performance of a checker-board P-300 speller. The performance of the proposed paradigm was evaluated and compared to the traditional stimuli in checker-board paradigm in an online experiment over ten healthy subjects. For each paradigm, the recorded data from an offline session was used to calibrate the speller classifier; and consequently, the classification accuracy was calculated over online sessions. The proposed paradigm, showed 14% enhancement in classification accuracy with respect to the checker-board paradigm. The results of this study obviously showed that the stimuli obtained by presenting emoji instead of character flashing, effectively improved the speller classification accuracy.
