Poster at MIHealth Forum

1. Brain-neural computer interfaces on track to home
Development of a practical generation of BNCI for
independent home use
The long term goal of rehabilitation for the individual
with an acquired brain injury is resettlement back in the
community away from institutional care. BackHome is
about physical and social autonomy of people with
disabilities, using mainly Brain-Neural Computer
Interfaces (BNCIs) and integrating other assistive
technologies as well. BackHome takes a broad approach
and wants to support the transition from institutional
care to home post rehabilitation and discharge.
Cognitive Rehabilitation in BackHome
The Memory-Cards Game
EloisaVargiu, Stefan Dauwalder, Marc Solá, Felip Miralles
evargiu@bdigital.org
Barcelona DigitalTechnology Center
Barcelona – Spain
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• www.Backhome-FP7.eu
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• BackHome-FP7-Research-
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• @BackHomeFP7
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• BackHomeFP7
BackHome Cognitive Rehabilitation
Serious games defined with
therapists. Main features:
 Simplicity of use (BCI)
 Parameterization of level of
complexity to customize
therapeutic range
 Evaluable to provide feedback
 to users (motivation)
 to therapists (personalization)
The Memory-Cards Game
Parameterization:
 three levels of difficulty have been defined
 difficulty increases by augmenting
 the number of available cards
• level 1: 8 cards
• level 2: 12 cards
• level 3: 20 cards
 the complexity of the adopted images
• level 1: shapes
• level 2: fruits
• level 3: animals
Results are shown to the user in numerical and graphical
view
 Score: the numbers
of corrected moves with
respect to the total
moves
 Number of moves
 Elapsed time
Therapists are able to interact with users in real time,
and monitor the use and outcomes of the cognitive
rehabilitation tasks to attain therapeutic results
Conclusions
 A user centered approach has been
adopted
 Therapists plan, schedule, telemonitor
and personalize the prescription of
cognitive rehabilitation tasks
 The user performs those tasks inside her
therapeutic range
 The overall approach and the memory-
cards game are currently under testing
by people with traumatic brain injury