Biofeedback and Neurostimulation for Computer Game Design?

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Biofeedback and Neurostimulationfor Computer
Game Design?

• Mijail Misha Serruya, MD, PhD
• February 2006

misha1_at_brown.edu
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Timely

• Clinical
• Military

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Overview

• Biofeedback defined
• Galvanic skin conductance
• Heart rate heart rate variability
• EEG neurofeedback
• fMRI feedback
• Neurostimulation
• Game content
• Funding available / business models

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Biofeedback

• Biofeedback is a technique that uses monitoring
  devices of autonomic bodily functions, like
  breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, brain
  activity, skin temperature, and muscle tension.
  By watching these measurements, you can learn how
  to alter these functions by relaxing or holding
  pleasant images in your mind.

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Autonomic Nervous System

• point and shoot

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Biofeedback without the tech?
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Galvanic Skin Conductance
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Heart Rate
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For Your Information
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Wild Divine

• DEMO, bowarrow
• InnerTube, ship control with keyboard

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EEG
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EEG

• DEMO

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EEG can measure
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Neurofeedback
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Contrived Neurofeedback Games
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fMRI neurofeedback
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Neurostimulation
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Game Content / Biofeedback Alignment?
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GROUP Neurobiofeedback?
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Funding Available / Business Ideas?

• NIH / NIMH
• NEJM/Lancet randomized double-blinded placebo
  controlled
• DARPA / ONR
• AugCog and beyond