This is the Curatorial Assignment on Interesting Interfaces for Theories of Media & Technology, DM-GY 6043-B.
Original: Ted Talk of Greg Gage - How To Control Someone Else's Arm Using Your Brain
Original URL: https://www.ted.com/talks/greg_gage_how_to_control_someone_else_s_arm_with_your_brain#t-293885
Start at 4:00 if you are in a haste! That is where everything begins!
Discussion
The idea of adopting neural signal as a feedback system, or to say, neural signal based interface, mainly in form of electroencephalogram (EEG) and electromyogram (EMG) [1], has been popular since 1960s. The common output choice of a neural signal based Interface would be visual, audio stimuli or motion of robots [2]. But this interface, in a quite bold and even morally dangerous manner, connecting the neural signal acquired directly to the arm of another person.
This demo is so weird, dangerous but also deadly attractive. Since It shows the possibility of a new mean of communication between one person and another, through EMG directly. While on the other hand, the interface, like an algorithm, would have an input (User) and output (Device) [3]. In this video it is so certain while so nicely hidden that the woman is dominator, the user, and the man degraded into a pure medium of output, a dominatee, a device responding to the indifferent neural signal from his master.
While the implication of this project in a deeper level is a suggestion of the possible implement of brain to brain control (so natural for researchers since EMG always comes with EEG).
References
1. Hinterberger, Thilo. "The sensorium: a multimodal neurofeedback environment." Advances in Human-Computer Interaction 2011 (2011): 3.
2. Sas, Corina, and Rohit Chopra. "MeditAid: a wearable adaptive neurofeedback-based system for training mindfulness state." Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 19, no. 7 (2015): 1169-1182.
3. Booth, Paul. An Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction (Psychology Revivals). Psychology Press, 2014.
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