Author

Setare Amiri

Date of Award

January 2014

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Electrical Engineering

First Advisor

Reza Fazel-Rezai

Abstract

The goal of this research was to evaluate and compare two types of brain computer interface (BCI) systems, P300 and steady state visually evoked potentials (SSVEP), as spelling paradigms and combine them as a hybrid approach. There were pilot experiments performed for designing the parameters of the SSVEP spelling paradigm including peak detection for different range of frequencies, placement of LEDs, design of the SSVEP stimulus board, and window time for the SSVEP peak detection processing. The next experiment was to evaluate the SSVEP spelling paradigm. Six subjects participated in the task. The accuracy of each frequency and average accuracy for each subject were considered. The second experiment was designed to compare the performance and accuracy of SSVEP, P300, and the combination of both paradigms as a simultaneous task. Ten subjects were considered for performing this experiment. Overall the average accuracy of the SSVEP spelling paradigm was 80.00 % and higher than the P300 spelling paradigm average accuracy which was 72.50 %, and both of the spelling paradigms have better accuracy than the hybrid paradigm with the average accuracy of 64.39 %.

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