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KMID : 1001720140240030005
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Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
2014 Volume.24 No. 3 p.5 ~ p.25
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A Survey on Potential User’s Needs and Demands for Brain Machine Interface(BMI) Technology Developments
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Lee Jeong-Won
An Kwang-Ok
Seo Jeong-Woo
Choi Hyun
Kim Jung-Hwan
Lee Seong-Jae
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to conduct a survey on what BMI potential users wanted with the technology and to use the results as guiding lights for future BMI research and development. The survey questions were developed by brain storming and mind mapping. It consisted of the questions about participants’ demographic information, their personal usages of ordinary assistive devices in everyday life, and their perceptions preferences, and experiences of the BMI technology. Included in this study were 60 people with motor dysfunctions due to spinal cord injury or neuromuscular diseases (30 with spinal cord injury, 30 with neuromuscular disorder). They wanted to use the BMI technology most for environmental control(91.6%), followed by manipulation(90%), communication(90%), mobility(86.7%) and then for computer access(78.3%). Those who actually wanted to use a BMI technology system preferred a non-invasive method(55%) compared to an invasive one(35%). and 3.3% of people didn’t want to use any BMI technology system at all. We found that the desire for using BMI was pretty high with the potential users of this technology. Our study would shed some lights on how and where this state-of-the-art technology should be going in the future. It was concluded that the research and development of BMI technology must be sensitive to potential users’ needs and demands.
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KEYWORD
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Brain-Machine Interface, survey, spinal cord injury, neuromuscular disorder
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