Graz University of Technology (TU-Graz)
The Graz University of Technology, established in 1811, consists of seven faculties and has about 8,000 students. The Laboratory of BCI Lab, belongs to the Institute of Knowledge Discovery, which is part of the Faculty of Computer Science.
The BCI Lab has been one of the leading BCI labs since the birth of BCI research. It has extensive expertise in EEG recording, offline and online processing of brain signals and biosignals in general, feature extraction, detection and classification of brain patterns, and neurofeedback systems. The so-called "Graz BCI" was one of the first online EEG-based BCIs. Various applications for this system, including spelling devices, computer games, FES, and navigation in virtual environments have been developed and tested in healthy users and several patient populations. TU-GRAZ successfully organized four major international BCI conferences over the last 8 years and plans a fifth conference in 2010.
Besides numerous national projects, the BCI Lab participated in a number of cooperative international projects such as the NIH (USA) project "EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface" (1998-2000), the EU projects "SIESTA" and "Presencia" (2002-2005), and the NIH (USA) project "Direct Brain Interface" (2001-2006).
The lab is currently partner of the following ongoing EU Framework Program projects "PRESENCCIA" (2006-2009), "Eye-To-IT" (2006-2009), and “Tobi” (2008-2012). TU-GRAZ will be involved with three cluster projects from challenge 7.2 call 4, in addition to BrainAble. TU-GRAZ will lead the CSA “Future BNCI” (expected 2010-2011) and be a partner in “DECODER” and “BETTER”, which are both likely to run from 2010-2012.