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Record W4407827561 · doi:10.54254/2755-2721/2025.20933

Investigating the Potential of Brain-Computer Interfaces in Controlling Smart Home Devices for Individuals with Mobility Impairments

2025· article· en· W4407827561 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueApplied and Computational Engineering · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicEEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
Canadian institutionsThe Scarborough HospitalUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHuman–computer interactionComputer scienceBrain–computer interfacePsychologyNeuroscienceElectroencephalography

Abstract

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Patients with spinal cord injuries and other similar conditions experience limited mobility and thus more difficulties with performing certain daily tasks independently. The investigation on the unification of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) with smart home systems aims to present a substitute method of control that is based on signals from the brain. The investigation one undertakes seeks to unmask the effectiveness, functionality, and shortcomings of BCI-smart home systems in actual social circumstances. Participants consisted of healthy individuals and impaired individuals who performed basic and complex operations using BCI systems. The results demonstrated 85% success for movement-impaired users and 92% for healthy individuals in simple tasks, but the rate decreased for the complex ones due to problems, including cognitive load and signal precision. The approach involved conducting experiments on various BCI paradigms, such as imaging tasks related to motor activities and SSVEP. Research brought to the surface the first inklings towards recognizing BCIs as tools to enhance the levels of autonomy and accessibility in patients with mobility impairments, shaping the ground where such technology will flourish, but more must be done in the field of signal processing, interface design, and hybrid control over multiple modalities before wider adoption of BCIs can be achieved.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.174
Threshold uncertainty score0.394

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.230
Teacher spread0.222 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it