Brain Computer Interface: Applications and P300 Speller Overview

Abstract

Brain computer interface (BCI) system is field of neurotechnology that convey command from human brain to a computer. BCI is currently most growing field in the research area. BCI applications have different field such as medical, education, neuroergonomics, self-regulation, games and entertainment, production, security as well as marketing. Electronic devices can be controlled using brain signal called electroencephalography (EEG) to record electrical activity of the brain. The P300 wave is a positive peak of an event related potential (ERP) that occurs 300ms recorded by EEG. One major approach in the BCI research field is the P300 based oddball paradigm, subjects identify infrequent target stimuli within a series of rapid presented standard stimuli. The P300-speller is a widely used BCI system that allows users to communicate characters by focused attention. In our study, we are focusing on BCI system architecture different applications of BCI specifically P300 speller which classifies P300 waves and recognize targeted character, on the dataset II of the third BCI competition.