A few months ago we acquired a new headset with a brain-computer interface called EPOC; a product developed by Emotiv Systems.

The headset allows the gathering of data in three categories of inputs: conscious thoughts, emotions and facial expressions. There is a lot to say about the capabilities of EPOC to measure emotion-related data and about executing specific actions based on previously trained thoughts, but we have been dedicating some effort to test the effectivity in the identification of facial expressions and the results are pretty interesting.

EPOC picks up signals of the facial muscles through EEG sensors. It is in this way that expressions like smiling, laughing or jaw or teeth clenching are detected by the system once it has been trained by a particular person. Detections are generally very fast (10 ms) and the degree of accuracy is quite good.

The possibilities of EPOC for the educational and gaming industry are huge. Further news in our research will be announced in this blog.

For more information visit Emotiv.