Emotiv offers brain-computer interface app by Digital Media students

10 Jun 2015

Emotiv, a leading international manufacturer of brain technology devices, recently introduced an application developed by Digital Media doctoral student Horácio Tomé Marques and FEUP masters student Hugo Cardoso in its online store.

The application, HoMy_EmoRAW, is a research tool designed and created by Marques in collaboration with Cardoso during Marques’s dissertation research, which focuses on the real-time representational forms of brain phenomena within context of art practice. The application was created to address the needs and problems related to accessing the headsets' brain-computer interface (BCI) raw data, an integral part of Marques’s study.

Marques, who is now concluding his Digital Media PhD, initiated the development of HoMy_EmoRAW in 2013 but the application had to progress through a series of required development processes and testing before being released by Emotiv.

Emotiv and HoMy_EmoRAW in use at Musicmakers Hacklab, CTM Berlin Festival 2015 (photo by RUMEX)