Brainport: An alternative input to the brain
Brainport: An alternative input to the brain
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DOI：
10.1142/s0219635205000914
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发表时间：
2005-12-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Tyler, Mitchell
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作者：
Danilov, Yuri;Tyler, Mitchell
脑机接口（BCI）技术是现代科学发展最快的领域之一，它在神经科学和计算机科学之间创造了许多重要的交叉点。BCI技术的目标是在人脑和计算机化环境之间提供直接联系。最近的脑机接口方法和应用的目标是提供从大脑到计算机外围设备的信息流。信息流的另一个方向（计算机到大脑的接口，或CBI）几乎还没有开发出来。BrainPort是一种CBI，它提供了一种补充技术，旨在支持从计算机化环境到人脑的直接链接，并且是非侵入性的。目前，BrainPort的研究正在追求两个主要目标。一种是通过在受损或故障的自然感觉系统周围的额外人工感觉通道传递对正常人类行为至关重要的缺失感觉信息。另一个是通过提供一个平行和补充的信息流到大脑的通道来降低人机交互中感官过载的风险。相比之下，传统的CBI策略（例如，虚拟现实），通常被设计为通过预先存在的感觉通道提供额外或替代信息，并无意中加剧了大脑过载问题。
Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology is one of the most rapidly developing areas of modern science; it has created numerous significant crossroads between Neuroscience and Computer Science. The goal of BCI technology is to provide a direct link between the human brain and a computerized environment. The objective of recent BCI approaches and applications have been designed to provide the information flow from the brain to the computerized periphery. The opposite or alternative direction of the flow of information (computer to brain interface, or CBI) remains almost undeveloped. The BrainPort is a CBI that offers a complementary technology designed to support a direct link from a computerized environment to the human brain - and to do so non-invasively. Currently, BrainPort research is pursuing two primary goals. One is the delivery of missing sensory information critical for normal human behavior through an additional artificial sensory channel around the damaged or malfunctioning natural sensory system. The other is to decrease the risk of sensory overload in human-machine interactions by providing a parallel and supplemental channel for information flow to the brain. In contrast, conventional CBI strategies (e.g., Virtual Reality), are usually designed to provide additional or substitution information through pre-existing sensory channels, and unintentionally aggravate the brain overload problem.