TOBI Workshop IV – Call for participation in Sion, Switzerland
23 January 2013 - 25 January 2013
Austria
The TOBI Workshop IV on Practical Brain-Computer Interfaces for End-Users: Progress and Challenges will be held from 23 to 25 January 2013 in Sion, Switzerland.
The brain–computer interface (BCI) technology uses brain signals to directly drive external devices. Over the past decade, BCIs have begun to provide basic communication and motor control abilities to people with severe motor disabilities, thus offering a unique opportunity to improve their quality of life.
TOBI, and similar efforts worldwide, promised to push the field forward, from laboratory to home environments, from research experimental setups to real-world prototypes, and from healthy participants to end-user studies. Progress along all these lines has been made, mainly because of a holistic user-centered approach and the integration of novel research components in areas such as hybrid BCI, online adaptation and mental states, as well as human-computer interaction. Yet, we are still facing challenges in bringing BCI to end-users for their daily use.
Goals:
The 4th and final TOBI workshop seeks to bring together all researchers, rehabilitation professionals, clinicians, and potential end-users in the field of BCI to share their progress, experience and prospects in practical BCIs for the end-users. We are thus soliciting contributions reporting progress in end-user studies as well as basic research facing the challenges in bringing BCI to end-users for their daily use.
Topics of interest, but not limited to, include:
● End-user studies and experiences with BCI technology
● User-centered approaches and user training
● Development and benefits of hybrid BCIs
● Online adaptation and monitoring of mental states
● Human-computer interaction
● Novel BCI principles and paradigms
● Ethical issues in BCIs
● Technology transfer to industrial products
Scientific Program:
The scientific program will consist of a series of keynote talks, oral presentations, poster presentations, live demonstrations, and round tables.
Papers accepted for presentation will be assigned either to an oral or poster session. In the same sessions, members of the TOBI project will report their achievements.
Keynote Speakers
● Prof. Niels Birbaumer, Univ. Tübingen & IRRCS S Camillo Hospital (Venice, Italy)
● Prof. Grégoire Courtine, EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland)
● Dr. José L. Pons, CSIC (Madrid, Spain)
More keynote speakers will be announced soon.
Confirmed Speakers
● José del R. Millán
● Donatella Mattia
● Klaus-R. Müller
● Gernot R. Müller-Putz
● Andrea Kübler
● Roderick Murray-Smith
● Rüdiger Rupp
● Evert-Jan Hoogerwerf
● Gerd Grübler
● …
Round Table:
Round table discussions will provide the opportunity for a dialog between:
● Researchers
● Practicioners
● End-users
● Industrial companies
Cluster Session on BCI and Ethics:
Ethics appointees from BCI projects are invited to introduce and discuss important ethical issues of their projects. Please register for the session with a short abstract.
Demonstrations & Exhibits:
Practical live demonstrations of TOBI prototypes will present the state of the art of BCI to potential end-users and rehabilitation professionals.
We also welcome demonstrations of other BCI systems.
In addition to demonstrations, companies will exhibit their BCI products.
Important dates:
Deadline for paper submission (2 pages): December 1, 2012 (Midnight Central European Time)
Outcome of paper review: December 15, 2012
Deadline for final version of the paper: January 10, 2013
Deadline for early registration (70 EUR): January 10, 2013
Workshop date: January 23-25, 2013
Registration Fees:
Early registration (until Jan. 10, 2013): 70 EUR
Late registration (until Jan. 20, 2013): 120 EUR
Onsite registration: 170 EUR
The brain–computer interface (BCI) technology uses brain signals to directly drive external devices. Over the past decade, BCIs have begun to provide basic communication and motor control abilities to people with severe motor disabilities, thus offering a unique opportunity to improve their quality of life.
TOBI, and similar efforts worldwide, promised to push the field forward, from laboratory to home environments, from research experimental setups to real-world prototypes, and from healthy participants to end-user studies. Progress along all these lines has been made, mainly because of a holistic user-centered approach and the integration of novel research components in areas such as hybrid BCI, online adaptation and mental states, as well as human-computer interaction. Yet, we are still facing challenges in bringing BCI to end-users for their daily use.
Goals:
The 4th and final TOBI workshop seeks to bring together all researchers, rehabilitation professionals, clinicians, and potential end-users in the field of BCI to share their progress, experience and prospects in practical BCIs for the end-users. We are thus soliciting contributions reporting progress in end-user studies as well as basic research facing the challenges in bringing BCI to end-users for their daily use.
Topics of interest, but not limited to, include:
● End-user studies and experiences with BCI technology
● User-centered approaches and user training
● Development and benefits of hybrid BCIs
● Online adaptation and monitoring of mental states
● Human-computer interaction
● Novel BCI principles and paradigms
● Ethical issues in BCIs
● Technology transfer to industrial products
Scientific Program:
The scientific program will consist of a series of keynote talks, oral presentations, poster presentations, live demonstrations, and round tables.
Papers accepted for presentation will be assigned either to an oral or poster session. In the same sessions, members of the TOBI project will report their achievements.
Keynote Speakers
● Prof. Niels Birbaumer, Univ. Tübingen & IRRCS S Camillo Hospital (Venice, Italy)
● Prof. Grégoire Courtine, EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland)
● Dr. José L. Pons, CSIC (Madrid, Spain)
More keynote speakers will be announced soon.
Confirmed Speakers
● José del R. Millán
● Donatella Mattia
● Klaus-R. Müller
● Gernot R. Müller-Putz
● Andrea Kübler
● Roderick Murray-Smith
● Rüdiger Rupp
● Evert-Jan Hoogerwerf
● Gerd Grübler
● …
Round Table:
Round table discussions will provide the opportunity for a dialog between:
● Researchers
● Practicioners
● End-users
● Industrial companies
Cluster Session on BCI and Ethics:
Ethics appointees from BCI projects are invited to introduce and discuss important ethical issues of their projects. Please register for the session with a short abstract.
Demonstrations & Exhibits:
Practical live demonstrations of TOBI prototypes will present the state of the art of BCI to potential end-users and rehabilitation professionals.
We also welcome demonstrations of other BCI systems.
In addition to demonstrations, companies will exhibit their BCI products.
Important dates:
Deadline for paper submission (2 pages): December 1, 2012 (Midnight Central European Time)
Outcome of paper review: December 15, 2012
Deadline for final version of the paper: January 10, 2013
Deadline for early registration (70 EUR): January 10, 2013
Workshop date: January 23-25, 2013
Registration Fees:
Early registration (until Jan. 10, 2013): 70 EUR
Late registration (until Jan. 20, 2013): 120 EUR
Onsite registration: 170 EUR
Keywords
BCI