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The New Design of Brain Measurement System for Immersive Virtual Reality  

Kim, Gyoung Mo (Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications)
Jeon, Joonhyun (Konkuk University Human ICT)
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Journal of the HCI Society of Korea / v.12, no.4, 2017 , pp. 75-80 More about this Journal
Abstract
With the technological development, benefits of Virtual Reality (VR) has become a key of medium in communication research. In addition, explaining human minds with physiological data has become more popular since more accurate and detailed data can be expressed. However, reading brain signals in a virtual environment setting with psychophysiological measures (e.g. EEG and fNIRS) has remained a difficulty for researchers due to a technical constraint. Since a combination of cables for brain measures attached to a head cap obstruct wearing a Head-Mounted Display (HMD) over the cap, measuring brain activities with multiple channels on several areas of the brain is inappropriate in the VR setting. Therefore, we have developed a new brain measurement cap that includes probe connectors and brackets enabling a direct connection to the HMD. We highly expect this method would contribute to cognitive psychology research measuring brain signals with new technology.
Keywords
Brainwave; Psychophysiology; EEG; fNIRS; Virtual Reality; Brain measurement method; VR caps;
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