A Brain Controlled Command-Line Interface to Enhance the Accessibility of Severe Motor Disabled People to Personnel Computer

Sofien Gannouni, Kais Belwafi, Mohammad Reshood Al-Sulmi, Meshal Dawood Al-Farhood, Omar Ali Al-Obaid, Abdullah Mohammed Al-Awadh, Hatim Aboalsamh, Abdelfettah Belghith

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    Abstract

    There are many applications controlled by the brain signals to bridge the gap in the digital divide between the disabled and the non-disabled people. The deployment of novel assistive technologies using brain-computer interface (BCI) will go a long way toward achieving this lofty goal, especially after the successes demonstrated by these technologies in the daily life of people with severe disabilities. This paper contributes in this direction by proposing an integrated framework to control the operating system functionalities using Electroencephalography signals. Different signal processing algorithms were applied to remove artifacts, extract features, and classify trials. The proposed approach includes different classification algorithms dedicated to detecting the P300 responses efficiently. The predicted commands passed through a socket to the API system, permitting the control of the operating system functionalities. The proposed system outperformed those obtained by the winners of the BCI competition and reached an accuracy average of 94.5% according to the offline approach. The framework was evaluated according to the online process and achieved an excellent accuracy attaining 97% for some users but not less than 90% for others. The suggested framework enhances the information accessibility for people with severe disabilities and helps them perform their daily tasks efficiently. It permits the interaction between the user and personal computers through the brain signals without any muscular efforts.

    Original languageBritish English
    Article number926
    JournalBrain Sciences
    Volume12
    Issue number7
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jul 2022

    Keywords

    • brain-computer interface
    • brain-controlled operating system
    • EEG signals processing
    • P300

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