Critiquing the Concept of BCI Illiteracy
Critiquing the Concept of BCI Illiteracy
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DOI：
10.1007/s11948-018-0061-1
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发表时间：
2019-08-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Thompson, Margaret C.
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作者：
Thompson, Margaret C.
脑机接口(BCI)是一种读取用户的神经信号来执行任务的技术形式，通常目的是推断用户的意图。它们在广泛的临床、商业和个人应用中显示出潜力。但BCI并不总是易于操作，即使经过培训，一些BCI用户也无法按预期操作他们的系统。许多研究人员将这种现象描述为BCI文盲，并出现了一系列旨在描述、预测和解决这一感知问题的研究。然而，BCI文盲不足以解释用户在操作BCI系统时面临的困难。BCI文盲是一个方法论上薄弱的概念；此外，它依赖于有缺陷的假设，即BCI用户具有阻碍熟练使用BCI的生理或功能特征。BCI文盲的替代概念可能会为潜在用户提供更好的结果，并可能避免BCI文盲给BCI研究过程带来的概念陷阱。
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are a form of technology that read a user's neural signals to perform a task, often with the aim of inferring user intention. They demonstrate potential in a wide range of clinical, commercial, and personal applications. But BCIs are not always simple to operate, and even with training some BCI users do not operate their systems as intended. Many researchers have described this phenomenon as BCI illiteracy, and a body of research has emerged aiming to characterize, predict, and solve this perceived problem. However, BCI illiteracy is an inadequate concept for explaining difficulty that users face in operating BCI systems. BCI illiteracy is a methodologically weak concept; furthermore, it relies on the flawed assumption that BCI users possess physiological or functional traits that prevent proficient performance during BCI use. Alternative concepts to BCI illiteracy may offer better outcomes for prospective users and may avoid the conceptual pitfalls that BCI illiteracy brings to the BCI research process.