TY - JOUR
T1 - Cortical control of a tablet computer by people with paralysis
AU - Nuyujukian, Paul
AU - Albites Sanabria, Jose
AU - Saab, Jad
AU - Pandarinath, Chethan
AU - Jarosiewicz, Beata
AU - Blabe, Christine H.
AU - Franco, Brian
AU - Mernoff, Stephen T.
AU - Eskandar, Emad N.
AU - Simeral, John D.
AU - Hochberg, Leigh R.
AU - Shenoy, Krishna V.
AU - Henderson, Jaimie M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/11
Y1 - 2018/11
N2 - General-purpose computers have become ubiquitous and important for everyday life, but they are difficult for people with paralysis to use. Specialized software and personalized input devices can improve access, but often provide only limited functionality. In this study, three research participants with tetraplegia who had multielectrode arrays implanted in motor cortex as part of the BrainGate2 clinical trial used an intracortical brain-computer interface (iBCI) to control an unmodified commercial tablet computer. Neural activity was decoded in real time as a point-and-click wireless Bluetooth mouse, allowing participants to use common and recreational applications (web browsing, email, chatting, playing music on a piano application, sending text messages, etc.). Two of the participants also used the iBCI to “chat” with each other in real time. This study demonstrates, for the first time, high-performance iBCI control of an unmodified, commercially available, general-purpose mobile computing device by people with tetraplegia.
AB - General-purpose computers have become ubiquitous and important for everyday life, but they are difficult for people with paralysis to use. Specialized software and personalized input devices can improve access, but often provide only limited functionality. In this study, three research participants with tetraplegia who had multielectrode arrays implanted in motor cortex as part of the BrainGate2 clinical trial used an intracortical brain-computer interface (iBCI) to control an unmodified commercial tablet computer. Neural activity was decoded in real time as a point-and-click wireless Bluetooth mouse, allowing participants to use common and recreational applications (web browsing, email, chatting, playing music on a piano application, sending text messages, etc.). Two of the participants also used the iBCI to “chat” with each other in real time. This study demonstrates, for the first time, high-performance iBCI control of an unmodified, commercially available, general-purpose mobile computing device by people with tetraplegia.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0204566
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0204566
M3 - Artículo
C2 - 30462658
AN - SCOPUS:85056936035
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 13
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 11
M1 - e0204566
ER -