UnipaBCI a Novel General Software Framework for Brain Computer Interface

The increasing interest in Brain Computer Interface (BCI) requires new fast, reliable and scalable frameworks that can be used by researchers to develop BCI based high performance applications in efficient and fast ways. In this paper is presented “UnipaBCI”, a general software framework for BCI applications based on electroencephalography (EEG) that can fulfill these new needs. A visual evoked potentials (VEP) application has also been developed using the proposed framework in order to test the modular architecture and the overall performance. Different types of users (beginners and experts in BCI) have been involved during the “UnipaBCI” experimental test and they have exhibited good and comparable results.

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