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Research Lets You Type Words By Thought Alone
An anonymous reader writes "How about typing on a computer just by thinking about it? The downside is you have to wear a skull cap with electrodes that capture your brain waves like an EEG machine. According to this EE Times story, a team of researchers from Belgium and the Netherlands has presented Mind Speller, a thought-to-text device intended to help people with movement disabilities. The system does rely on a lot of processing on a remote computer, but it is a wireless system. And these thought-to-computer systems have wider applicability than medical support. One of the research groups involved in this development has already looked at wireless electroencephalography (EEG) to enable measures of emotion to be fed back into computer games."
The last article that was posted was only about typing individual letters, and of course people were quick to say how useless that was: slow and impractical.
And of course the researchers thought so too, which was fine because the technology isn’t done yet.
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On the surface, this sounds shit fuck fantastic, but reality is, I gotta take a crap our brains don't focus my leg itches like that. Well, at least titties mine doesn't.
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Using this in computer games seems nifty, but I can see some definite issues that it would introduce. Lets say you use emotional feedback to adjust difficulty; you want them challenged but not frustrated. Problem is, if they pause the game, get a snack, and come back, you can't make them resume the same emotional state they had when they paused. When they come back refreshed, the game will assume it isn't challenging them anymore and unleash hell.
I'm not saying this can't be worked around (wait a couple minutes after a pause before allowing difficulty to adjust), but the fact that human emotional state can't be controlled as precisely as a game controller means that using it in a game means rethinking a lot of existing paradigms.
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I really think this is an amazing bit of technology, I'm just afraid of what it could potentially be turned into. This is not something I would want law enforcement to start practicing. OTOH, it seems to have the potential to help a great deal of people too, so guess you have to take the good with the bad.
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You did? My experience here has been that for every gem, he posts ten posts ranging from subtly off-topic to subtle trolling.
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You better not be multilingual, you get stuck on a word in one language, and your thoughts on "oh damn, what's that word, sounds like whatever" gets put into your document as you're trying to remember the damn word you wanted.
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Wouldn't this work a lot like the canine speech synthesizers in "Up", except instead of suddenly going "Squirrel!", it goes "Tits!" all the time?
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...what I want is to be able to transmit images from my brain onto a computer monitor. I have a TON of (what I think as) really cool and creative images in my head, but completely lack the artistic ability to even begin to sketch/draw/paint them.
I doubt I'm the only one in this hellishly frustrating situation -_-;;
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That'd explain those college SEX essays where paragraphPORNs have random words inside a sentence.
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It'll be far easier than typing with one hand.
Do you have ESP?
I'm not sure BAG is one person. I haven't done any scientific investigation, but just from what I've read there are at least 3 or 4 different posting styles ranging from true analogies (though bad) through biting sarcasm all the way to actually insightful posts. There is also the type of post above which seems to intend humor but isn't quite as good as the others. He seems to be going through a karma whoring phase now (possibly due to excessive downmods).
His posts are also night-owl for the most part but sometimes venture well into the day time here in the U.S. I wouldn't be surprised if the BAG "team" was primarily located in the UK or even Australia with other part-timers located elsewhere.
It's an interesting topic. What does "he" get out of playing this character? How many people are involved in putting on this show for us (presumably for us, that is)?
but will it set your mind in motion?
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so this would be wonderful.
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I can type- but it's like level "2" (of 10) pain, every keystroke.
I looked into the NIA and have used voice software.
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I can't wait for them to get it hooked up to my iPod so I can write while I jog. I don't care about silly hats if I can transcribe my thoughts. I realize I'll need to edit the output, but that's a small price to pay.
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...is just how little I apparently think about sex, relative to the general population. There is a period of roughly once every 24 hours where the subject comes up, for the most part, and that is it. If I go outside, and happen to run into some women, it might be more than that, but on days when I stay in, it genuinely doesn't.
I guess I'm just really abnormal.
Amusing comments but the reality is that this is still the same old P300. You concentrate on a letter, they flash different letters on the screen for about 30 seconds, and it makes a guess at what letter you were thinking of. Then if it's right you go on to the next letter. Super super slow. Eye blink signals are probably just as fast. And if you can't use your eyes you probably can't use P300. I think there have been some studies trying to extract P300 signals from audio cues but they have not been too successful.
You can not write words by thought alone. This device allows to (painstakingly at a very slow speed) type letters. This is a great stuff but this is not the device you are looking for. This is mostly for disabled people.
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'Gives a whole new meaning to "Freudian slip."
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He brings a heavy looking sports-bag in the office one day - find a reason to quickly step outside.
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This would be an interesting device indeed for those paralyzed with sudden, repetitive, stereotyped thoughts.
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The image I see for me using this would just be a shotgun blast of words spewing onto the screen without any particular form or direction. It takes so much control for me to just type a sentence without other thoughts crossing into the stream of words. Without the physical filter of selectively typing words it would become incoherent babble almost instantaneously.
Damn that was a workout.
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Damn! The next thing you know, they'll expect me to read TFA before posting.
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I want to play someone else with different emotions in those games, not myself...
I guess if you're Rom Houben, you'd have a legitimate need for one of these things.
I mean, someone like Dr Steven Laureys would presumably come in, attach the electrode cap to your head, post the operating instructions on the ceiling over your bed, and leave you alone with it. After a few hours, if you've typed out "OMG Help Me I'm trapped and I can't move -- oh and please scratch my nose!" then you're not comatose.
I can see the fnords!
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I just know that training my computer to recognize words in my mind would end up with me juxtaposing all of my brain farts into a completely unusable jumble. Or it would train me to clarify my internal monologue (dialogue?) so I made sense to myself. One of those. And a lot of proofreading would be mandatory for everything I "typed" with this.
We could finally understand Stephen Hawkins and find out the secrets of the universe.
What would be cool is if they made this sensitive enough, and trained someone well enough, that they could use it to communicate while dreaming.
Of course, all you'd see is line after line of "The blue fish is mellooooow... How's that snarker, Mr. Handle? Where did I leave my other lung..." and the like, but it would still be fascinating.
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and the surgery to implant it into the base of your skull is so painless it's no wonder I'm number 1!
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or else!
why hasn't Stephen Hawking been using it?
Surely he'd be the best advertising for them?
Mainly from just using it, of course, not from what he says with it.
Or any of the comatose patients which "facilitators" tell us are really alive and conscious?
...then I'd have my thesis done by now. At least, that's what I keep telling myself.