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#Scanners: A BCI Enhanced Cinematic Experience

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#Scanners is a bio-responsive digital arts experience that blurs the lines between cinematics and neuroscience. Using a commercially available wireless EEG device, #Scanners presents a specially commissioned film that is dynamically altered both visually and aurally in accordance with the viewer's levels of Attention and Meditation, as calculated by the EEG device. The system has been demonstrated to audiences across Europe and has allowed us to explore design opportunities around both extents of, and awareness of control with otherwise passive multimedia experiences. At CHI2016, viewers will be able to experience the #Scanners system, watch their own personalized version of the film. Spectators will be able to see viewers, their levels, and their effect on the film.

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    CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    May 2016
    3954 pages
    ISBN:9781450340823
    DOI:10.1145/2851581
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    1. BCI
    2. art
    3. control
    4. experience
    5. film
    6. interaction

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    May 7 - 12, 2016
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    • (2022)Frontal alpha asymmetry interaction with an experimental story EEG brain-computer interfaceFrontiers in Human Neuroscience10.3389/fnhum.2022.88346716Online publication date: 12-Aug-2022
    • (2019)Exploring Machine Learning Approaches for Classifying Mental Workload using fNIRS Data from HCI TasksProceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 201910.1145/3363384.3363392(1-11)Online publication date: 19-Nov-2019
    • (2018)#Scanners 2 - The MOMENTExtended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3170427.3186481(1-4)Online publication date: 20-Apr-2018
    • (2017)Responsive media: media experiences in the age of thinking machinesAPSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing10.1017/ATSIP.2017.46:1Online publication date: 2017

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