Abstract
In this paper, we presented a novel asynchronous speller for Chinese sinogram input by incorporating electroencephalography (EOG) into the conventional electroencephalography (EEG)-based spelling paradigm. An EOG-based brain switch was used to activate a classic row-column P300-based speller only when spelling was needed, enabling an asynchronous operation of the system. Then, the user could input sinograms by alternately performing P300 and double-blink tasks until he or she intended to stop spelling. With the incorporation of an EOG detector, the system achieved rapid sinogram input. In addition to asynchronous operation, the performance of the proposed speller was compared with that achieved by a P300-based method alone across 18 subjects. The proposed system showed a mean communication speed of approximately 2.39 sinograms per minute, an increase of 0.83 sinograms per minute compared with the P300-based method. The preliminary online performance indicated that the proposed paradigm is a very promising approach for practical Chinese sinogram input application. This system may also be expanded to users whose languages are written in logographic scripts to serve as an assistive communication tool.
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