Thought Police

Self-Paced Brain-Computer Interface Gets Closer to Reality

From Physorg.com comes a report on BCI research at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Using the human mind to control computers could lead to a wide range of applications, such as giving people with limited motion the ability to operate machines. However, translating thoughts into actions is a great challenge for researchers. How can a system determine which thoughts should be acted upon, and which thoughts are merely personal thoughts and therefore should be ignored by the system?

Written by ti29187

January 15, 2008 at 6:21 pm