Beyond the lab: real-world benchmarking of wearable EEGs for passive brain-computer interfaces
Ronca Vincenzo, Cecchetti Marianna, Capotorto Rossella, Di Flumeri Gianluca, Giorgi Andrea, Germano Daniele, Borghini Gianluca, Babiloni Fabio, Aricò Pietro · 2025
Read Beyond the lab: real-world benchmarking of wearable EEGs for passive brain-computer interfaces by Ronca Vincenzo, Cecchetti Marianna, Capotorto Rossella, Di Flumeri Gianluca, Giorgi Andrea, Germano Daniele, Borghini Gianluca, Babiloni Fabio, Aricò Pietro (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-12779824.txt.
Description
Brain-computer links that read the mind passively, without the user trying, need headsets that work outside the lab. A team of researchers compared two consumer headsets, the Emotiv EPOC X and the Muse S, against a research-grade system across twenty-four volunteers. Each person wore all three in turn while watching videos, juggling tasks under rising load, and driving in a simulator.
The research system gave the steadiest signals, the fewest artifacts, and mental-state scores that tracked both task load and how people said they felt. Cleaning the data helped the consumer sets, but their scores stayed blunter and less in line with self-reports. The team sums up the trade-offs among signal quality, ease of use, and cost for each device.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ronca Vincenzo, Cecchetti Marianna, Capotorto Rossella, Di Flumeri Gianluca, Giorgi Andrea, Germano Daniele, Borghini Gianluca, Babiloni Fabio, Aricò Pietro |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 77 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |