Diving bell & the butterfly (Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:53:45 +0000)
A new movie, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” has recently been released detailing the life of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the former editor of Elle magazine, who suffered from locked-in syndrome. Using his only remaining movement, blinking his eye, he wrote the book of the same name over a period of months, letter by letter. This story is often cited as one of the inspirations for brain-computer interface research, and our BCI program is working on developing new communications systems, such as integrating Dasher and BCI2000. The video link shows an example of how a BCI could be used by a person with locked-in syndrome for writing.
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Collaborators
The BCI and NITRO Labs work with many different people and labs around the United States and the world.
The Wadsworth Center & BCI2000
The software used for our research is BCI2000. Developed by Gerwin Schalk at the Wadsworth Center in Albany, NY, BCI2000 is a highly-customizable open-source program that handles data acquisition, signal processing, and stimulus presentation.
