TY - JOUR
T1 - Nessi
T2 - An EEG-controlled web browser for severely paralyzed patients
AU - Bensch, Michael
AU - Karim, Ahmed A.
AU - Mellinger, Jürgen
AU - Hinterberger, Thilo
AU - Tangermann, Michael
AU - Bogdan, Martin
AU - Rosenstiel, Wolfgang
AU - Birbaumer, Niels
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - We have previously demonstrated that an EEG-controlled web browser based on self-regulation of slow cortical potentials (SCPs) enables severely paralyzed patients to browse the internet independently of any voluntary muscle control. However, this system had several shortcomings, among them that patients could only browse within a limited number of web pages and had to select links from an alphabetical list, causing problems if the link names were identical or if they were unknown to the user (as in graphical links). Here we describe a new EEG-controlled web browser, called Nessi, which overcomes these shortcomings. In Nessi, the open source browser, Mozilla, was extended by graphical in-place markers, whereby different brain responses correspond to different frame colors placed around selectable items, enabling the user to select any link on a web page. Besides links, other interactive elements are accessible to the user, such as e-mail and virtual keyboards, opening up a wide range of hypertext-based applications.
AB - We have previously demonstrated that an EEG-controlled web browser based on self-regulation of slow cortical potentials (SCPs) enables severely paralyzed patients to browse the internet independently of any voluntary muscle control. However, this system had several shortcomings, among them that patients could only browse within a limited number of web pages and had to select links from an alphabetical list, causing problems if the link names were identical or if they were unknown to the user (as in graphical links). Here we describe a new EEG-controlled web browser, called Nessi, which overcomes these shortcomings. In Nessi, the open source browser, Mozilla, was extended by graphical in-place markers, whereby different brain responses correspond to different frame colors placed around selectable items, enabling the user to select any link on a web page. Besides links, other interactive elements are accessible to the user, such as e-mail and virtual keyboards, opening up a wide range of hypertext-based applications.
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U2 - 10.1155/2007/71863
DO - 10.1155/2007/71863
M3 - Article
C2 - 18350132
AN - SCOPUS:36249018509
VL - 2007
JO - Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
JF - Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
SN - 1687-5265
M1 - 71863
ER -