Brain game: how to steer a virtual car
25 Sep | At this CREATE webinar, Dr Rea Lehner explains how brain-computer interface (BCI) technology can help an individual control an application or device.
Over the last decades, neuroengineering and neuroscience studies have demonstrated how brain-computer interface (BCI) technology can decode neural mechanisms of simple tasks and translate them into commands to control an application or device. Most of these studies are still limited to lab settings and have been conducted with healthy participants.
The CYBATHLON BCI race at ETH Zurich presents an opportunity to advance and augment the BCI design strategies by including considerations of an end clinical application to offer people with quadriplegia a means of communication and control.
In the talk "Brain Game: How to Steer a Virtual Car with your Thoughts", Dr Rea Lehner, senior programme manager of the Future Health Technologies programme will discuss the scientific methods applied (i.e. electroencephalography in combination with machine learning) and the pilot/patient's journey over several training sessions.
This talk is part of the CREATE webinar series, organised by the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) under the National Research Foundation.
Presenter
Dr Rea Lehner is senior scientist and programme manager for the Future Health Technologies programme at the Singapore-ETH Centre, which she has contributed substantially to the development since its early beginnings. She obtained her PhD at ETH Zurich, focusing on how the human brain controls movements and is influenced by rewards. Since 2018, she has been leading a team of researchers and assistants from Nanyang Technological University Singapore and ETH Zurich to participate in the CYBATHLON 2020 Brain-Computer Interface Race. Her research has involved bringing technology-assisted interventions for stroke rehabilitation to the patient's home.