Principles of Hybrid Brain–Computer Interfaces

Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) research has developed in the last decade so that BCIs are ready to be used with users outside the research labs. Although a wide range of assistive devices (ADs) exist, the additional usage of a BCI could improve the overall performance or applicability of such a combined system and is called hybrid BCI (hBCI). In this chapter the development of hBCIs starting from specific BCI combinations to very general hBCI based on EEG, biosignals and ADs is presented.

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