Designing meaningful interaction with mental workload data

Our understanding of mental workload (MWL) is still limited compared to well-known physiological data like blood pressure and heart rate. MWL measures the cognitive resources required for tasks against what's available. Innovative technologies offer more comprehensive and objective cognitive data, but their impact on individuals and their...

Neurorights as Hohfeldian Privileges

This paper argues that calls for neuro- rights propose an overcomplicated approach. It does this through analysis of ‘rights’ using the influential framework provided by Wesley Hohfeld, whose ana- lytic jurisprudence is still well regarded in its clar- ificatory approach to discussions of rights. Having disentangled some unclarities in talk...

The Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics

While Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has contributed to demonstrating that physiological measures can be used to detect cognitive changes, engineering and machine learning will bring these to application in consumer wearable technology. For HCI, many open questions remain, such as: What happens when this becomes a cognitive form of personal...

Towards Optimization of ECG Noise Suppression in Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation

Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation (aDBS) offers the potential for personalized stimulation strategies for patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD). The closed loop characteristic of this system requires the incorporation of PD relevant biomarkers that determine the patient's need. In order to obtain high quality LFP (Local Field Potential) input...

Fractional cyber-neural systems — A brief survey

Neurotechnology has made great strides in the last 20 years. However, we still have a long way to go to commercialize many of these technologies as we lack a unified framework to study cyber-neural systems (CNS) that bring the hardware, software, and the neural system together. Dynamical systems play a key role in developing these...

Brain-computer interface-based feedback to enhance motor rehabilitation

The central nervous system (CNS) exhibits remarkable plasticity throughout life. The physiological changes in the CNS that occur due to plasticity allow us to perform new skills and old ones more effectively and efficiently over time.<br/><br/>Recently, it has been demonstrated that plasticity can be used to help people recover motor function...

Brain Recording, Mind-Reading, and Neurotechnology: Ethical Issues from Consumer Devices to Brain-Based Speech Decoding

Brain reading technologies are rapidly being developed in a number of neuroscience fields. These technologies can record, process, and decode neural signals. This has been described as ‘mind reading technology’ in some instances, especially in popular media. Should the public at large, be concerned about this kind of technology? Can it really...

Modular Headgear Design for Neurotechnological Applications

Over the last ten years, various products have been introduced with which consumers can analyze or even modify the activity of their brains. When it comes to the design of these neurotechnological headgears, there are contradictory requirements between the functionality, fit and experience. As a result, current devices are generally either...