We did it! We have successfully created and demonstrated a working prototype that uses neural input to control Google Glass this summer in our lab. Recently, our findings have been published in the Proceedings for the 2014 Gmunden Retreat for Neuro IS.  The interface is still quite basic, but it works!

Why Google Glass?

Google Glass is special. It is a new form-factor for technology allowing access to much of your smart phone’s capabilities on a head-mounted display. There are other similar products on the market or using the rollout support that Google offers. That is why we feel that it is so important to start thinking of new ways to use it now.

 

The Big Impact

As the novelty wears off and the nature of its capabilities is more widely understood, wearable technology will become mainstream.  We are using evoked responses recorded as surface EEGs as our input signal. With this progress, it is important for us to remember a group of people that can truly benefit from this technology, people with limited speech and mobility, but full cognitive capabilities. When Dr. Randolph extended me an early invitation to also be a Glass Explorer, our mutual goals at the Kennesaw State University BrainLab were to help provide a better solution for people living locked into their bodies for communicating and controlling their environment.  Google Glass helps slingshot our efforts past the more cumbersome and expensive (yes, much more expensive than Glass is now) recording systems.

We’re so excited about the implications in the fields of brain-computer interfaces and Neuro-Information Systems. Something great was born this summer at Kennesaw State University’s Coles College of Business. I hope that you’ll join us on this adventure!”