Monday, September 9, 14:00 - 17:00 - Kopernikusgasse 24, Ground floor, Lecture Hall H “Ulrich Santner”
International Graz BCI conference 2024
Organizers
Fabien Lotte, Inria Center at the University of Bordeaux, LaBRI, France
Maurice Rekrut, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany
Marc Tabie, DFKI Bremen, Germany
Sébastien Rimbert, Inria Center at the University of Bordeaux, LaBRI, France
Tobias Jungbluth, DFKI Saarbrucken, Germany
Niklas Küper, DFKI Bremen, Germany
Description
Whereas BCIs are promising for many applications, they are not reliable. Their reliability degrades even more across users or when used across contexts (e.g., across days or for changing users’ states) due to various sources of variabilities. Unfortunately, such variabilities are 1) often ignored in the literature, as most BCIs are assessed in a single context, for a single day, and with user-specific designs, and 2) poorly understood. Thus, for BCIs to fulfil their promises and to be used in practice outside laboratories, we need to make them robust to such variabilities. This workshop aims at contributing to this issue, by gathering speakers working on BCI variabilities, to survey the various known sources of variabilities for different BCI types, present some methods to address them, and discuss with the audience to identify the most promising next steps and challenges to tackle BCI variabilities
Programme
14:00 - Fabien Lotte, “An introduction to variabilities in Brain-Computer Interactions”
14:25 - Sébastien Rimbert, “Towards a better understanding of ERD/ERS to reduce variabilities in Motor-Imagery BCI”
14:50 - Maurice Rekrut, “Variability in brain/EEG data and the impact on Imagined Speech BCI performance”
15:15 - Break
15:30 - Tobias Jungbluth, “On the effect of electrode type in EEG-based Speech BCI applications”
15:55 - Niklas Küper: “EEG processing and variabilities in human-robot interaction scenarios”
16:20 - Global discussion: “Identifying open-research questions, open-challenges and promising algorithmic directions for tackling variabilities in BCI”