Connectionists: PASCAL Workshop 2007 - BCI Meets HCI

[Steven Lemm]

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Workshop : "BCI Meets HCI"
http://www.maia-project.org/pascal-workshop
April 16-17, 2007
IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland


A Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is a novel augmentative communication 
system that translates human intentions -- reflected by suitable brain 
signals -- into a control signal for an output device such as a computer 
application or a neuroprosthesis.

Work in the field has tended to be dominated by the challenge of 
deriving useful input signals to the computer from the complex sensor 
data, and in training users how to use such devices, and progress has 
been made to the point at which some BCI systems can be used with 
relatively little training. The interaction aspects of such systems 
have, however, often played a secondary role to the technical challenges 
of sensor interpretation.

This workshop is intended to bring researchers from the broader HCI 
community together with researchers in the BCI community, to discuss how 
lessons learned in modern HCI research can improve BCI interfaces, and 
also how the challenges faced in BCI (e.g., low-bit rates, inherently 
noisy sensing, no proprioceptive feedback, potentially dangerous control 
actions) can stimulate a rethink of some
core elements of HCI.

Poster Submission
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Please send a one-page abstract (including figures and references, no 
less than 200 words) using the Registration Form. Use only PDF files!!

Posters will be selected depending on relevance to the workshop topic, 
quality, and novelty.

Invited Speakers
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Prof. Stephen Brewster, Glasgow University, UK
Dr. Febo Cincotti, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy
Dr. Yves Guiard, CNRS & Univ. de la Mediterranée, Marseilles, France (TBC)
Dr. Andrea Kuebler, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Prof. Christa Neuper, University of Graz, Austria
Prof. Marnix Nuttin, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (TBC)
Prof. Harold Thimbleby, Swansea University, UK

Organizing Committee
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Prof. José del R. Millán, IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland
Prof. Roderick Murray-Smith, Glasgow University, Scotland
Dr. Benjamin Blankertz, Technical University of Berlin & Fraunhofer 
FIRST, Germany
Prof. Klaus-Robert Müller, Technical University of Berlin & Fraunhofer 
FIRST, Germany

Local Organizers
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José del R. Millán
Cristina de Negueruela
Nancy-Lara Robyr
Vincent Spano

Registration
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Participation is free and open to a limited number of students, 
researchers and practitioners. Preference will be given to people active 
or with a keen interest in the field. For this reason you may want to 
describe, in a few lines, your expertise and interest in the 
registration form.

Sponsors
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The workshop is organized by the EU's 6th Framework Programme PASCAL 
Network of Excellence, as part of the Thematic Programme on 
"Computational Neuroscience and BCI".