Affective Brain-Computer Interfaces (aBCIs): A Tutorial

Dongrui Wu, Bao Liang Lu, Bin Hu*, Zhigang Zeng*

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Abstract

A brain-computer interface (BCI) enables a user to communicate directly with a computer using only the central nervous system. An affective BCI (aBCI) monitors and/or regulates the emotional state of the brain, which could facilitate human cognition, communication, decision-making, and health. The last decade has witnessed rapid progress in aBCI research and applications, but there does not exist a comprehensive and up-to-date tutorial on aBCIs. This tutorial fills the gap. It introduces first the basic concepts of BCIs and then, in detail, the individual components in a closed-loop aBCI system, including signal acquisition, signal processing, feature extraction, emotion recognition, and brain stimulation. Next, it describes three representative applications of aBCIs, i.e., cognitive workload recognition, fatigue estimation, and depression diagnosis and treatment. Several challenges and opportunities in aBCI research and applications, including brain signal acquisition, emotion labeling, diversity and size of aBCI datasets, algorithm comparison, negative transfer in emotion recognition, and privacy protection and security of aBCIs, are also explained.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1314-1332
Number of pages19
JournalProceedings of the IEEE
Volume111
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2023

Keywords

  • Affective computing
  • brain-computer interface (BCI)
  • emotion recognition
  • emotion regulation
  • machine learning

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