Brain-Computer Interfaces

The human-computer interaction field has matured much in the last several decades. It is now firmly rooted as a field that connects more traditional fields such as computer science, design, and psychology in such a way as to allow us to leverage and synthesize work in these spaces to build technologies that augment our lives in some way. The field has also built up well-defined methodologies for repeating this work across a series of disciplines. Simultaneously, neuroscience continues to advance sufficiently fast and brain-computer interfaces are starting to gain enough traction that we believe it is a field ripe for collaboration with others such as HCI. In fact, we argue that the specific properties of the two fields make them extremely well suited to cross-fertilization, and that is the intent of this book. We chose to focus largely on HCI researchers as our audience because we believe that HCI methodologies are relatively well documented.