Recommendations for Building Gamified Calibration Technologies for BCI Applications

Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs) are a promising interaction method that currently face many problems before they can be used in everyday applications, such as games. One of the main problems is that calibration required for each new session using the BCI can be as long as 30 min. In this work in progress we hold 6 workshops with 2-4 participants per workshop, 18 participants total, to brainstorm the wide range of BCI applications and how to gamify the calibration process for each application. We propose an overview of the workshop results and an analysis and discussion around criteria for calibration games based on a BCI application.

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