Influence of the Environmental Hostility Level in an HCI System

Systems that seek for a better human-computer interaction (HCI) are getting more common thanks to the advances technology. Although their functioning can be good, the user has to feel comfortable with the system as outer environmental conditions may affect how the user interacts with the system and, subsequently, how the user perceives the application. This work presents a simple HCI application based on a portable EEG headset that permits to control a table tennis videogame via eye blink detection. Through this game, the work studies how environmental hostility conditions may affect user performance of alternative HCI systems.