An Ethnography of a Brain Interface Device

这个项目将增进我们对使用大脑技术解释感官的理解。该项目将让公众参与有关开发和使用脑机接口设备的讨论。这项研究将确定这些技术是如何推向市场的，以及个人用户如何体验这些技术。它将引起患者、医生、政策制定者、科学家和技术开发人员的兴趣。该项目将汇集科学、神经科学和转化医学的社会研究，以调查脑机接口(BMI)设备的开发方式。它将探索受试者在使用BMI设备时会看到什么的问题。BMI设备“工作”意味着什么？这项研究将追踪参与BMI设备(即学术军工复合体)生产的机构关系如何在个人的感知体验中表现出来。该项目将使用现象学和实验方法，包括计算建模、心理物理学和行为任务，以及访谈和人种学。通过在神经科学的背景下结合制度民族志和批评现象学的方法，结果将有助于我们对具体化过程的理解。

This project will advance our understanding of using technologies of the brain in interpreting the senses. The project will engage in public participation in discussions regarding the development and use of brain machine interface devices. The study will identify how these technologies are brought to market, and experienced by individual users. It will be of interest to patients, doctors, policy makers, scientists and technology developers. This project will bring together social studies of science, the neurosciences and translational medicine to investigate the ways in which brain machine interface (BMI) devices are being developed. It will explore questions about what subjects see when using BMI devices? What does it mean for a BMI device to "work"? The study will trace how institutional relationships involved in the production of a BMI device (i.e. the academic military- industrial complex) manifest in individual, perceptual experience. The project will use phenomenological and experimental methods that include computational modeling, psychophysics and behavioral tasks, as well as interviews and ethnography. By combining institutional ethnography and critical phenomenological methods in the context of the neuroscience the result will contribute to our understanding of the processes of embodiment.