Exploring the Potential of Combining Smart Glasses and Consumer-grade EEG/EMG Headsets for Controlling IoT Appliances in the Smart Home
E. De Buyser, Elias De Coninck, Bart Dhoedt, Pieter Simoens · 2016
The number of smart home appliances that can be connected to the Internet grows every day.In this paper, we explore the potential of combining two emerging head-mounted interaction devices for intuitive control of these devices.Smart glasses are used to detect the object the user wants to control, and an EEG/EMG headset is used for triggering commands to the object of interest.We discuss the research and implementation challenges of identifying devices having the users visual attention and of mapping EEG/EMG headset output to device instructions.By exploiting the user context, we improve the responsiveness and precision of the user intent detection.Despite the enthusiastic reactions of the participants in a small user study, we have learned that the consumer-grade headsets available today present many shortcomings.