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UnipaBCI a Novel General Software Framework for Brain Computer Interface

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Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2017)

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The increasing interest in Brain Computer Interface (BCI) requires new fast, reliable and scalable frameworks that can be used by researchers to develop BCI based high performance applications in efficient and fast ways. In this paper is presented “UnipaBCI”, a general software framework for BCI applications based on electroencephalography (EEG) that can fulfill these new needs. A visual evoked potentials (VEP) application has also been developed using the proposed framework in order to test the modular architecture and the overall performance. Different types of users (beginners and experts in BCI) have been involved during the “UnipaBCI” experimental test and they have exhibited good and comparable results.

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Acknowledgment

Authors wish to thank Christopher Guger supporting us with his BCI hardware, the master thesis students Rosario Misuraca, Walter Tranchina and Giuseppe Trubia for their support in the framework development.

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  1. Robotics Lab, Università degli Studi di Palermo - Dipartimento dell’Innovazione Industriale e Digitale (DIID), Viale delle Scienze, Building 6, 90128, Palermo, Italy

    Salvatore Tramonte, Rosario Sorbello, Marcello Giardina & Antonio Chella

  2. ICAR-CNR, via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90146, Palermo, Italy

    Antonio Chella

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Tramonte, S., Sorbello, R., Giardina, M., Chella, A. (2018). UnipaBCI a Novel General Software Framework for Brain Computer Interface. In: Barolli, L., Terzo, O. (eds) Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems. CISIS 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 611. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61566-0_31

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