SBIR Phase I: Using Brainwaves in Virtual Reality Applications

SBIR 第一阶段：在虚拟现实应用中使用脑电波

• 批准号: 2110883
• 负责人: Lotfi Ben Othmane
• 金额: $ 25.6万
• 依托单位: BRAINSOFT, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2110883&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Using; Brainwaves; Virtual

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is to make virtual reality (VR) applications more intuitive and thereby increase their adoption of immersive technologies. The VR market was estimated to be $6.1 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach $20.9 billion by 2025. This project addresses the VR developers’ challenge of creating interfaces that enable intuitive navigation. As envisioned, the technology resulting from this project may enable developers to write user-friendly human interfaces for VR software by removing the current constraints posed by the need to master the domain of brainwaves. The project seeks to provide capabilities for deriving the user’s mental and emotional states, thus facilitating objective user feedback. That new capability may impact other domains, including education and therapy. Acquiring capabilities to establish relationships between the mental and emotional states of the users and the VR and real-world environment stimuli could be developed and used to identify patterns that may answer important questions about human behavior and help people with limited mobility. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project advances the use of brainwaves to control VR environments. This project will develop techniques for inferring users’ decisions while navigating a VR environment and for deriving insights into users’ reactions to stimuli in real-world and VR environments. For this Phase I proof-of-concept work, these innovative techniques will be evaluated in jury consulting and game therapy scenarios. The research addresses four technical hurdles: 1) inferring users’ decisions in virtual environments from brainwaves with reasonable accuracy, 2) deriving insights into users’ intellectual and emotional states as a result of exposure to stimuli, 3) designing an architecture for useable brainwaves-based applications, and 4) designing security and privacy solutions for this VR system.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是使虚拟现实（VR）应用更直观，从而增加了它们对沉浸式技术的采用。 VR市场估计在2020年为61亿美元，预计到2025年将达到209亿美元。该项目涉及VR开发人员创建实现直觉导航的接口的挑战。如所设想的那样，该项目产生的技术可以使开发人员通过删除需要掌握脑电波领域所需的当前约束来为VR软件编写用户友好的人界面。该项目旨在提供推导用户心理和情感状态的功能，从而支持客观用户的反馈。新功能可能会影响其他领域，包括教育和治疗。可以开发并使用获得用户的心理和情绪状态与情绪状态之间建立关系的能力，并可以使用VR和现实世界环境刺激，以识别可能回答有关人类行为的重要问题并帮助有限行动能力的人的模式。这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I阶段项目推动了使用脑电波来控制VR环境的方法。该项目将开发用于在导航VR环境时推断用户决策的技术，并洞悉对用户对现实世界和VR环境中刺激的反应。对于I阶段的概念证明工作，这些创新技术将在陪审团咨询和游戏治疗方案中进行评估。 The research addresses four technical hurdles: 1) inferring users’ decisions in virtual environments from brainwaves with reasonable accuracy, 2) deriving insights into users’ intellectual and emotional states as a result of exposure to stimuli, 3) designing an architecture for useable brainwaves-based applications, and 4) designing security and privacy solutions for this VR system.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed precious of support通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的评论标准进行评估。