Augmented brain computer interaction based on fog computing and linked data

Abstract

An augmented brain computer interface that can detect users' brain states in real-life situations has been developed using wireless EEG headsets, smart phones and ubiquitous computing services. This kind of wearable natural user interfaces will have a wide-range of potential applications in future smart environments. This paper describes its ubiquitous system architecture and introduces its enabling technologies, which include machine-to-machine publish/subscribe protocols, multi-tier fog/cloud computing infrastructure and a linked data web. Its real-time responsiveness and easiness-of-use will be demonstrated by playing a multi-player on-line BCI game EEG Tractor Beam at the Intelligent Environment Conference.