Assessing Drivers’ Physiological Responses Using Consumer Grade Devices

Consumer-grade EEG devices: are they usable for control tasks?

We present the evaluation of two well-known, low-cost consumer-grade EEG devices: the Emotiv EPOC and the Neurosky MindWave. Problems with using the consumer-grade EEG devices (BCI illiteracy, poor technical characteristics, and adverse EEG artefacts) are discussed. The experimental evaluation of the devices, performed with 10 subjects asked to perform concentration/relaxation and blinking reco...

Predicting Sleep Using Consumer Wearable Sensing Devices

In contrast to the explosion of consumer wearable health device market, which includes millions of units sold worldwide, the efforts undertaken to validate the accuracy and reliability of these monitoring apps and devices have been minimal [1]. To reach this understanding there are several barriers. In the domain of sleep tracking, sleep researchers have yet to define standard metrics for valid...

Laser speckle imaging using a consumer-grade color camera.

Laser speckle imaging (LSI) is a noninvasive optical imaging technique able to provide wide-field two-dimensional maps of moving particles. Raw laser speckle images are typically taken with a scientific-grade monochrome camera. We demonstrate that a digital single-lens reflex (dSLR) camera with a Bayer filter is able to provide similar sensitivity despite taking information only from a specific...

Neurogaming-based Classification of Player Experience Using Consumer-Grade Electroencephalography

A growing body of literature has emerged that demonstrates the potential of neurogaming platforms for interfacing with well-known video games. With the recent convergence of advances in consumer electronics, ubiquitous computing, and wearable sensor technologies real-time monitoring of neurocognitive and affective states can be studied in an objective, timely, and ecologically valid manner. Whi...

Multiple consumer-grade depth camera registration using everyday objects