Category: The Brain

On March 7th, 2012 I attended a very enlightening guest lecture at Columbia University that was presented by Rajesh Rao, a computer science professor of the University of Washington.  Professor Rao does extensive research into brain-computer interfacing, working with the Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Biology, and Neuroscience that goes into the development of the field. […]

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I’m not sure why I haven’t shared the below link yet. It’s skipped my mind for long enough. The site is centered around one of my favorite Parsons D+T courses to date, Post-Planetary Design (yes, I stole the name for one of my blog’s categories).  The course, taught by the great thinker Ed Keller, is a […]

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Interactive Android Application for EEG Biofeedback

//–The Code Is On Github!–// [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/41776885 w=500&h=281] ABSTRACT This post details the research and development of a mobile application which receives and annotates neurofeedback data from a commercial electroencephalography (EEG) device with a single dry electrode. The system is designed to convert any Android mobile phone into a portable storage device that passively records […]

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Have you ever wondered why you feel the way that you do? Have you ever been interested in seeing exactly how your daily routine affects your moods and emotions? Are you interested in discovering how to “perfect” your routine?  If so, keep on reading. My good friend, Wojo, and I are undertaking a cutting-edge research study to […]

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Check out the post that I made below to read about my ideas of syncing personal EEG feedback with the masses via a smartphone application. http://interaction2012.coin-operated.com/?p=547

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Project Notes (EEG to Mobile App)

Notes on my ongoing EEG project (with semester plan):

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Preliminary EEG Research (and Brain Cap v1.0)

Introduction This posts details my first attempt at building a Brain Computer Interface (BCI), as well as, some of the research I did along the way.  There are a number of methods of retrieving neurofeedback from the brain, but Electroencephalography (EEG) is the least invasive of the known methods.  Other methods, despite producing cleaner and more localized […]

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A Response to Emerging Technologies

This piece is a response to the following articles: Why We Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities by Akshay Java, Tim Finin, Xiaodan Song, and Belle Tseng Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet – and Keep Google Out by Fred Vogelstein Why The Future Doesn’t Need Us, by Bill Joy The […]

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