Neural Interface Technology Research and Optimization Lab

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.

Dasher Video

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NITRO Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Justin Williams

Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering

jwilliams at engr.wisc.edu

Graduate Students

Alex Blake

Projects: Microfluidics

ablake at wisc.edu
608.265.4170

Joe Hippensteel

Projects: microECoG

jhippensteel at gmail.com
608.265.4170

Yu Huang

Projects:

yuhuang at gmail.com
608.265.4170

Jiwan Kim

Projects: microECoG

jiwankim at wisc.edu
608.265.4170

Steve Skroch

Projects:

spskroch at wisc.edu
608.263.0008

Paul Victorey

Projects: Bioprinting and Patterning

pmvictorey at wisc.edu
608.263.0008

J. Adam Wilson

Projects: BCIs, microECoG

jawilson @ cae.wisc.edu
608.265.4170

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering