Journal
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ETHICS
Volume 25, Issue 4, Pages 1217-1233Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-018-0061-1
Keywords
Brain-computer interface; Brain-machine interface; BCI illiteracy; Research ethics; User-centered design
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Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are a form of technology that read a user's neural signals to perform a task, often with the aim of inferring user intention. They demonstrate potential in a wide range of clinical, commercial, and personal applications. But BCIs are not always simple to operate, and even with training some BCI users do not operate their systems as intended. Many researchers have described this phenomenon as BCI illiteracy, and a body of research has emerged aiming to characterize, predict, and solve this perceived problem. However, BCI illiteracy is an inadequate concept for explaining difficulty that users face in operating BCI systems. BCI illiteracy is a methodologically weak concept; furthermore, it relies on the flawed assumption that BCI users possess physiological or functional traits that prevent proficient performance during BCI use. Alternative concepts to BCI illiteracy may offer better outcomes for prospective users and may avoid the conceptual pitfalls that BCI illiteracy brings to the BCI research process.
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