Taking AIM: Development of an Alternative Interactive Modality for gaming and other digital media applications.

最近，人类神经生理(EEG)测量已经在各种基于低水平娱乐的产品中变得有市场。这些产品附带的耳机可能会测量大脑活动的某些方面，但它们的设计和简单性确保了肌肉和其他身体信号也被记录下来，从而污染了可能被记录的任何神经信号。因此，目前可用的耳机在游戏或其他虚拟环境(VE)应用中几乎没有价值，也与健康科学应用无关。然而，这些耳机表明，过去40年来工程学和神经科学的进步可以通过一种方式进行包装，使之能够在与健康相关的领域取得重大进展，例如先进的脑机接口设备。同样，这些进展也可以被用来扩大VE环境中的神经接口，例如与学习相关的模拟-练习新技能和复杂的游戏系统。这种大学和行业的合作的主要目标是开发必要的硬件和软件，以制造出足够精确地记录人类神经生理信号的耳机，以排除不相关的身体活动。这些耳机的设计将在健康、技能学习和游戏环境中实现快速和重要的应用。

Recently human neurophysiological (EEG) measures have become marketable in a variety of low-level entertainment-based products. The headsets that accompany these products may measure some aspects of brain activity but their design and simplicity ensure that muscle and other bodily signals are also recorded thus contaminating any neural signals that may be recorded. As a consequence, currently available headsets are of little or no value in gaming or other virtual environment (VE) applications - nor are they relevant for health sciences applications. However, these headsets demonstrate that the engineering and neuroscience advances over the last 40 years could be packaged in a manner that enables significant advances to be made in areas related to health such as advanced brain-computer interface devices. Equally, these advances could also be harnessed to expand neural interfacing in VE contexts such as simulations relevant to learning-practicing new skills and sophisticated gaming systems. This university-industry collaboration has as its primary goal to develop both the hardware and software necessary to create headsets that record human neurophysiological signals precisely enough to exclude irrelevant bodily activity. These headsets will be designed to enable rapid and significant applications in a range of health, skill learning, and gaming contexts.