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  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Biomedical Engineering

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  • Visual attention-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) often suffer from false positives due to interference from adjacent non-target stimuli.
  • Conspicuous stimuli in BCIs can lead to user annoyance and fatigue, negatively impacting system performance.
  • Existing BCI paradigms struggle to balance stimulus effectiveness with user comfort and reduced interference.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a novel stimulus presentation pattern for BCIs that minimizes adjacent interference, user annoyance, and fatigue.
  • To design a pattern that evokes event-related potentials (ERPs) comparable to traditional face-based patterns but with improved user experience.
  • To enhance the overall performance and usability of visual attention-based BCIs.

Main Methods:

  • A new stimulus pattern utilizing changes between positive and negative facial expressions was designed.
  • The facial expression change pattern was compared against a shuffled pattern (same visual elements, no semantic meaning) and a face vs. no face pattern.
  • Performance was assessed using classification accuracy, information transfer rate, and subjective user-reported measures of interference, annoyance, and fatigue.

Main Results:

  • Facial expression change patterns significantly reduced interference from adjacent stimuli, annoyance, and user fatigue compared to the standard face pattern (p < 0.05).
  • Classification accuracy for the facial expression change pattern was significantly higher than both the shuffled pattern and the face pattern (p < 0.05).
  • The novel pattern demonstrated effectiveness in evoking strong ERPs while mitigating negative user experiences.

Conclusions:

  • Stimulus patterns based on facial expression changes offer a promising approach to reduce interference, fatigue, and annoyance in BCI users.
  • This method significantly enhances BCI performance by improving classification accuracy and user comfort.
  • The findings suggest a new direction for designing more effective and user-friendly visual attention-based BCIs.