Online-NIPS post-NIPS workshop: programme

[Scott Makeig]

                  ****** PROGRAMME ******

                    NIPS*95 Workshop on

      ONLINE NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS:
      Prospects for Neural Human-Machine Interfaces

Date:      Saturday, Dec. 2, 1995 
Place:     NIPS*95 Workshops, Vail, Colorado 
www:       http://128.49.52.9/~www/nips.html
Organizer: Scott Makeig (NHRC/UCSD) scott at salk.edu

There is rapidly growing interest in the development of intelligent
interfaces in which operator state information derived from psycho-
physiological and/or video-based measures of the human operator
is used directly to inform, interact with, or control computer-based
systems. Adequate signal processing power is now available at
reasonable cost to implement in near-real time a wide range of
spectral, neural network, and dynamic systems algorithms for
extracting information about psychological state or intent from
multidimensional EEG signals, video images of the eyes and face,
and other psychophysiological and/or behavioral data.

This NIPS*95 conference workshop will give an opportunity for
interested researchers from signal processing, neuroscience, neural
networks, cognitive science, and computer design to discuss near-
and medium-term prospects for, and obstacles to, practical neural
human-systems interfaces (NHSI) technology for monitoring cognitive
state and for using operator state information to give operator
feedback, control adaptive automation or perform brain-actuated
control. Aspects of cognitive state that might be monitored using
NHSI technology include alertness, perception, attention, workload,
intention and emotion:

Programme (Saturday, Dec. 2, Vail Marriott):

7:30 Scott Makeig (NHRC/UCSD)  NHSI Overview
     Sandy Pentland (MIT Media Lab) Video-based human-computer interaction
     Alan Gevins (EEG Systems Labs) EEG-based cognitive monitoring
                           Discussion
8:30 Babak A. Taheri (SRI International) Active EEG electrode technology
     Tzyy-Ping Jung (Salk Institute) EEG-based alertness monitoring
     Magnus Stensmo (Salk Institute) Monitoring alertness via eye closures
                       General Discussion

9:30                       [free time]
12:30 Lunch (optional)
1:30                       [free time]

4:30 Georg Dorffner (ANNDEE project group, Austria) Brain-actuated control
     Grant McMillan (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ) Brain-actuated control
     Andrew Junker (CyberLink) EMG/EEG-actuated control 
                          Discussion
5:30 Curtis Padgett (UCSD) Video-based emotion monitoring
     Jose Principe (University of Florida) EEG-based communication
     Charles W. Anderson (Colorado State University) Mental task monitoring
                       General Discussion

The workshop will review ongoing progress and challenges in computational 
and technology areas, and discuss prospects for short- and medium-term 
implementations. 
                   Abstracts are available at:
                http://128.49.52.9/~www/nips.html
       NIPS*95 conference and post-conference workshop information:
         http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/NIPS/nips95.html
                        or via ftp/email from:
                   psyche.mit.edu in /pub/NIPS95
                     nips95 at mines.colorado.edu