A NEW MODE OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MAN AND HIS SURROUNDINGS

The material presented in this paper is the result of a research project that was designed to study the feasibility of establishing an alternative mode of communication between man and his surroundings. The new form of communication proposed uses only the subject's brain waves with no overt physical action required. Subjects' electroencephalograms (EEG) were recorded while they performed various mental tasks designed to elicit hemispheric responses. Features formed from the EEG recording were then used as inputs into a Bayes quadratic classifier to test classification accuracy between the various tasks. The results obtained indicate that it is possible to accurately distinguish between any pair of the five tasks investigated. A comparison between three different methods for creating the feature sets is also presented.