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Airborne Ultrasonic Tactile Display BCI

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This chapter presents results of our project, which studied whether contactless and airborne ultrasonic tactile display (AUTD) stimuli delivered to a user’s palms could serve as a platform for a brain computer interface (BCI) paradigm. We used six palm positions to evoke combined somatosensory brain responses to implement a novel contactless tactile BCI. This achievement was awarded the top prize in the Annual BCI Research Award 2014 competition. This chapter also presents a comparison with a classical attached vibrotactile transducer-based BCI paradigm. Experiment results from subjects performing online experiments validate the novel BCI paradigm.

K. Hamada is currently with DENSO Corporation, Japan.

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Acknowledgments

H. Mori and T.M. Rutkowski were supported in part by the Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Program No. 121803027 of The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication in Japan.

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  1. The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Katsuhiko Hamada & Hiroyuki Shinoda

  2. Life Science Center of TARA, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

    Hiromu Mori & Tomasz M. Rutkowski

  3. RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako-shi, Japan

    Tomasz M. Rutkowski

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  3. Cognitive Science Dept., UC San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

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Hamada, K., Mori, H., Shinoda, H., Rutkowski, T.M. (2015). Airborne Ultrasonic Tactile Display BCI. In: Guger, C., Müller-Putz, G., Allison, B. (eds) Brain-Computer Interface Research. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25190-5_6

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