Annual BCI Research Award

The BCI Award is an annual award for innovative research in the field of brain-computer interfaces. It is organized by the BCI Award Foundation.[1] The prize is $3000 for first, $2000 for second, and $1000 for third place. Some prizes are provided by g.tec and Guger Technologies.[2]. Christoph Guger is a chairman of the Foundation.[1]

In 2017 the awards were made during the Graz Brain-Computer Interface Conference at the Institute of Neural Engineering of Graz University of Technology in Graz, Austria.[3]

Associated events

There are also some other awards for BCI research. For example, the Berlin BCI group has hosted several Data Analysis Competitions. These competitions provide data from different types of BCIs (such as P300, ERD, or SSVEP), and competitors attempt to develop data analysis algorithms that can most accurately classify new data. The recently announced HCI Challenge instead focuses on improving the human-computer interaction within BCIs, such as through more natural and friendly interfaces. The X-Prize Foundation lists X-Prizes for BCI and Enduring Brain Computer Communication[4] as “Concepts Under Consideration". The Gao group at Tsinghua University in Beijing coordinated an online BCI competition at a conference that they hosted in 2010, and hosted a second competition in 2012. The Annual BCI Research Award is the only general award open to any facet of BCI research.

References
  1. BCI Award Foundation. BCI Award Foundation. Accessed April 2020.
  2. What is the Annual BCI Award?. BCI Award Foundation. Accessed April 2020.
  3. 7th Graz Brain-Computer Interface Conference 2017. Graz: Institute of Neural Engineering, Graz University of Technology. Archived 30 September 2017.
  4. "Life Sciences". XPRIZE.
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