Advancing boggle : taking BCI web-browsing out of the lab

Abstract

Boggle is an open-source, brain-native web browser designed for individuals living with highly restrictive motor impairments. Leveraging Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEP) and in-browser stimuli generation, Boggle enables users to navigate and interact with the web using only their brain signals. This interactive demo presents our newly developed architecture that is meant to enable people to use this BCI-browser outside of a lab environment. Along with an embedded signal acquisition and classification pipeline, Boggle also ships with a novel, customisable and empirically verified SSVEP stimulus generator that was developed entirely using native web technologies. As part of BrainWeb, a project funded by the University of Malta Research Excellence Fund, Boggle is also designed to integrate with low-cost and commercially available electroencephalogram (EEG) headsets, lowering barriers to entry while balancing quality in use. This interactive experience will allow attendees to explore BCI-based web browsing and gain insight into its key aspects and challenges.