Inter-stimulus Interval Study for the Tactile Point-pressure Brain-computer Interface

TL;DR

This study investigates how different inter-stimulus intervals affect classification accuracy in a tactile point-pressure brain-computer interface, introducing a novel stimulator and confirming that ISI variations do not significantly impact performance.

Contribution

The paper introduces a new tactile stimulator based on a pin matrix and examines the effect of ISI variations on tpBCI classification accuracy, confirming non-significant differences.

Findings

Classification accuracy is not significantly affected by ISI variations.

A novel tactile stimulator based on a pin matrix is proposed.

ERP response averaging scenarios do not significantly change accuracy.

Abstract

The paper presents a study of an inter-stimulus interval (ISI) influence on a tactile point-pressure stimulus-based brain-computer interface's (tpBCI) classification accuracy. A novel tactile pressure generating tpBCI stimulator is also discussed, which is based on a three-by-three pins' matrix prototype. The six pin-linear patterns are presented to the user's palm during the online tpBCI experiments in an oddball style paradigm allowing for "the aha-responses" elucidation, within the event related potential (ERP). A subsequent classification accuracies' comparison is discussed based on two ISI settings in an online tpBCI application. A research hypothesis of classification accuracies' non-significant differences with various ISIs is confirmed based on the two settings of 120 ms and 300 ms, as well as with various numbers of ERP response averaging scenarios.