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Perturbation-Evoked Potentials: Future Usage in Human-Machine Interaction

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Information Systems and Neuroscience

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation ((LNISO,volume 32))

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Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can be used to improve human-machine interactions (HMIs) by providing implicit information about the mental state. We introduce a brain activity, perturbation-evoked potentials (PEPs), that was not yet investigated in the context of BCIs although it has the required properties. An experimental setup for studying PEPs is proposed and validated and two possible use cases for this brain activity are introduced.

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  1. Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Jonas C. Ditz & Gernot R. Müller-Putz

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  1. Information Systems and Quantitative Sciences (ISQS), Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

    Fred D. Davis

  2. University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Steyr, Oberösterreich, Austria

    René Riedl

  3. Department of Information Systems, University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

    Jan vom Brocke

  4. Department of Information Technology, HEC Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Pierre-Majorique Léger

  5. Department of Information Systems, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA

    Adriane Randolph

  6. Department for Digital Business, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Steyr, Oberösterreich, Austria

    Thomas Fischer

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Ditz, J.C., Müller-Putz, G.R. (2020). Perturbation-Evoked Potentials: Future Usage in Human-Machine Interaction. In: Davis, F., Riedl, R., vom Brocke, J., Léger, PM., Randolph, A., Fischer, T. (eds) Information Systems and Neuroscience. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28144-1_30

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