DXP412 Advanced Practice in IVD

Emotiv System’s products are the Emotiv EPOC, a peripheral for gaming on Windows, OS X and Linux, and the Emotiv EEG neuroheadset.The EPOC has 16 electrodes and is meant to work as a computer input device. Company: Emotive Lifesciences - CEO:  Tan Le Technology: The Emotive Epoc headset can figure out the user’s minds, feelings and expressions in real time with 14 sensors. This machine use a technique called electroencephalogram (EEG) that can create a graph measurement of brain waves. It also can pick up the electrical fluctuations that create from neutrons firing inside user’s brain.

User Experience: The headset no longer using the wires as in traditional EEG tests, it is completely wireless, the player can be free and move naturally when using the device. Thus, The Emotiv EPOC has made an afford to close the gap between the real world and the virtual world to create a more realistic user experience. There are also opposite perspective  from others who claim the whole idea, and even the experience of using it as"unnerving".

Company: EyePlusPlus Inc.

Technology: AuxDeco has a small camera which will capture the objects in front of the user into images. Then the photo’s outline is read and converted by the computer of AuxDeco into data. The headband send that data to the forehead. There, 512 installed electrodes recreate the object’s shape via electronic pulses directly onto the user’s forehead. For instance, if an object is round, this device uses electronic sensors to simulate a round shape on the person’s forehead. If there is a street crossing, the device simulates a horizontal line. This way, through their skin, a user can better distinguish shapes and forms.

User Experience: The machine were too heavy, and the electronic pulses were too strong and painful. The scientists of EyePlusPlus Inc. had made many improvements and developed a program that help users to purchase the AuxDeco after training with it for 20 to 30 hours. Now, the AuxDeco is indicated to be convenient ad safe.

Company: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). This machine created by HASEGAWA P. Ryohei, Ph.D, the leader of the Neurotechnology Research Group of the Human Technology Research Institute.