Design and simulation of virtual telephone keypad control based on brain computer interface (BCI) with very high transfer rates

• Main Authors: Rehab B. Ashari, Ibrahim A. Al-Bidewi, Mahmoud I. Kamel
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2011-03-01
• Series: Alexandria Engineering Journal
• Subjects: Brain Computer Interface; Steady State Visual Evoked Potential; Dynamic Programming; Longest Common Subsequence
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016811000160

Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is a communication and control mechanism, which does not rely on any kind of muscular response to send a message to the external world. This technique is used to help the paralyzed people with spinal cord injury to have the ability to communicate with the external world. In this paper we emphasize to increase the BCI System bit rate for controlling a virtual telephone keypad. To achieve the proposed algorithm, a simulated virtual telephone keypad based on Steady State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP) BCI system is developed. Dynamic programming technique with specifically modified Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) algorithm is used. By comparing the paralyzed user selection with the recent, and then the rest, of the stored records in the file of the telephone, the user can save the rest of his choices for controlling the keypad and thence improving the overall performance of the BCI system. This axiomatic approach, which is used in searching the web pages for increasing the performance of the searching, is urgent to be used for the paralyzed people rather than the normal user.