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Brain-Computer Interfaces for the Workplace and Daily Life

CS/HCI MQP — WPI HCI Lab

We are looking for motivated students to work with us on exciting research on brain and body sensing and brain-computer interfaces, and applying them to educational systems, daily life, the workplace, and user experience research. If interested, please fill out the interest form here.

Project Overview

The goal of this project is to design, prototype, develop and evaluate novel user interfaces and investigate emerging sensing platforms. Potential use cases include improving the performance of human teams interacting with AI systems, reducing the cognitive overhead of remote collaboration, and providing users with information about the cognitive impact of their technology use.

This interdisciplinary project would provide opportunities for students interested in human-computer interaction, brain-computer interfaces, emerging sensor platforms, psychology, cognitive science, machine learning, data science, feature selection, signal processing, and information visualization. Depending on student background and interests, the project may involve developing robust software following current best practices in software engineering (Java, Python, Matlab, D3, Javascript, HTML, CSS) to enhance our testbed and dashboard for data processing and visualization. It may also involve conducting literature reviews, user interface design, and coordinating experiments with human subjects to advance human-computer interaction research. In addition, the project may focus on exploring machine learning approaches to classify brain data in real time or statistical analysis (Matlab, SPSS, Excel) and other analytic work on offline data sets.

Key Learning Objectives

• Gaining an understanding of interdisciplinary human-computer interaction research methods
• Experience developing robust software following current best practices in software engineering
• Exposure to machine learning methods
• Training in experimental design and analysis

Learn More

• A New Kind of Thinking Cap: WPI Researchers Are Using Brain Imaging to Improve Personalized Learning (WPI News)
• Video overview of the research (YouTube)

Get Involved

If you are interested, please fill out the interest form here. To learn more about other openings in the lab, see the Research Opportunities page.