Supervising SSSEP experiments with a Bluetooth Android remote control application

José Rouillard (1) , François Cabestaing (1) , Jean-Marc Vannobel (1) , Marie-Hélène Bekaert (1)

1 CRIStAL - Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189

In this paper, we are presenting how we are controlling the vibration frequency sent from an Android smartphone to an Arduino board connected to a vibrator, in order to supervise more easily SSSEP (Steady State Somatosensory Evoked Potentials) experiments. Our researches are conducted in the context of hybrid Brain-Computer Interfaces for motor severely impaired patients, and our aim is to detect a physiological gating phenomenon on SSSEP responses when patients are trying to perform some small fingers moves while vibrations are emitted under their fingers.

Mots clés: Hybrid BCI; SSSEP; Gating; Vibration; Smartphone; Arduino

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Sciences de l'ingénieur [physics]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

José Rouillard, François Cabestaing, Jean-Marc Vannobel, Marie-Hélène Bekaert. Supervising SSSEP experiments with a Bluetooth Android remote control application. International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, Jul 2018, Orlando, United States. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-94866-9_37⟩. ⟨hal-01915111⟩