Nataliya Kosmyna, Chi-Yun Hu, Yujie Wang, Qiuxuan Wu, Cassandra Scheirer, and Pattie Maes. 2021. A Pilot Study using Covert Visuospatial Attention as an EEG-based Brain Computer Interface to Enhance AR Interaction. In 2021 International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 43–47. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3460421.3480420

Abstract

 In this work we propose a prototype which combines an existing augmented reality (AR) headset, the Microsoft HoloLens 2, with an electroencephalogram (EEG) Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) system based on covert visuospatial attention (CVSA) – a process of focusing attention on different regions of the visual field without overt eye movements. In this work we did not rely on any stimulus-driven responses. Fourteen participants were able to test the system over the course of two days. To the best of our knowledge, this system is the first AR EEG-BCI integrated prototype that explores the complementary features of the AR headset like HoloLens 2 and the CVSA paradigm.