Abstract
The BackHome system is a multi-functional BCI system, the final outcome of a User Centred Design approach, whose ambition is to move BCI systems from laboratories into the home of people in need for their independent home use. The paper presents the results of testing and evaluation of the BackHome system with end-users at their own homes. Results show moderate to good acceptance from end-users, caregivers and therapists; which reported promising usability levels, good user satisfaction and levels of control in the use of services and home support based on remote monitoring tools.
Highlights
An important number of research projects in the last number of years have contributed to improve brain–computer interface (BCI) technologies and a number of different applications for this alternative means of human–computer interaction have been produced (Lynch, 2002; Kaufmann et al, 2013)
We explore the experiences of caregivers and therapists in their role to facilitate end-users operate the BCI system
For the sake of anonymity, they will be referred as Home User 1 (HU1), Home User 2 (HU2), Home User 3 (HU3), and Home User 4 (HU4)
Summary
An important number of research projects in the last number of years have contributed to improve brain–computer interface (BCI) technologies and a number of different applications for this alternative means of human–computer interaction have been produced (Lynch, 2002; Kaufmann et al, 2013). The progress of BCI research within those “replace” and “restore” scenarios aim to deliver BCIbased products that represent an alternative to current assistive technologies (AT). The BackHome project has promoted these trends with the ambition to move BCI systems from laboratories and controlled environments into the home of people for their independent use. A number of recent studies have indicated that BCI could be a useful solution for target end-user; these studies have been in controlled environment or laboratory based (Nijboer et al, 2008; Holz et al, 2013; Schreuder et al, 2013; Zickler et al, 2013). User-Centered Design (UCD) has been developed as a way of reducing this gap between the laboratory and the real world use of BCI
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