Workshop in Brain-Machine Interface Systems 2016

News: Paper submission deadline has been extended to May 1st, 2016
 

IEEE SMC 2016’s 6th Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface Systems will be held October 9-12, 2016 in Budapest as part of the program of SMC 2016 - the flagship annual conference of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. This event will also host the second IEEE Brain Initiative Annual Meeting.

The workshop is organized by the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Brain-Machine Interfaces Systemsand is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Brain Initiative, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE Consumer Electronic Society, IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, IEEE Magnetics Society, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society,IEEE Sensor Council,IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, the IEEE Standards Association and the IEEE Systems council.

Participation is free to all registered SMC2016 attendees. The theme of this year’s workshop, which involves the integration of Systems, Human-Machine Systems, and Cybernetics, is: 

 “New Research Opportunities and Industrial Applications in BMI Systems Arising from the IEEE Brain Initiative”

Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMI) systems offer the possibility of a new generation of multidisciplinary technologies that allow users to directly control devices via the nervous system. Successful realization of such approaches encompass several challenges including seamless interaction of the human and the machine, robust systems to chronically measure brain activity, reliable decoding of the (neural) control signals, and efficient means to provide information back to the user. Development of robust BMI systems suitable for chronic, independent use demands special efforts for developing adaptive intelligent algorithms and low-power wearable invasive or non-invasive recording techniques.

The goal of the workshop is to facilitate the interaction and intellectual exchange between all researchers, developers and consumers of this technology. We invite contributions reporting the latest advances, innovations, and applications in these fields. Also of interest will be the report and evaluation of complete systems considering aspects such as multidimensional performance metrics reflecting decoding accuracy, task performance, human factors, decoding algorithms, and feedback. These topics represent both challenges to the field and a tremendous opportunity for collaborative and multidisciplinary research, involving not only peers with expertise in the field of BMI, but also expertise in systems engineering, human-machine systems, cybernetics, and/or other disciplines. The four-day workshop will featuretutorials, panels, a number of prominent invited speakers from industry and academia, andpresentations of contributed papers.

A highlight of the workshop will be a session on Commercialization of Technology, titled "Moving Research Out of the Lab Into the Real World: How Science and Technology Become Commercialized" with speakers with speakers such as Reese Jones, Founder Farallon, Netopia, BMUG; Jack McCauley, Co-founder Oculus; Joel Libove, Founder Furaxa, Ultraview; Stephen Pieraldi, Founder Fail Pro, 2BClear; Stuart M. Dambrot, Founder Critical Thought|TV; and Bernt R. Wahl, Founder Factle, Datahunt, Dynamic Software.

The IEEE Brain Initiative Best Paper Award will be given to the best paper at this workshop, and 5 IEEE Brain Initiative student travel grants will be awarded. Besides this, all papers in the workshop will be eligible for SMC's Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award and Best Student Paper Award..