UAEU Honours First-prize Winners Of Brain-Computer Interface Designers Hackathon
Muhammad Irfan Published November 25, 2021 | 04:30 PM
AL AIN, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM - 25th Nov, 2021) A team of students from the College of Information Technology, of the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) has won first place in the Brain-Computer Interface Designers Hackathon at the 2021 Conference of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.
Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh, Chancellor of the UAEU, and Adviser for Cultural Affairs at the UAE Ministry of Presidential Affairs, received the students. The student team comprised Khalil Ibrahim Al Balooshi, Ahmed Shemy, and Mohamed Abdel-Jabbar. They were supervised by Dr. Abdelkader Nasreddine Belkacem.
Nusseibeh commended the students’ achievements saying, "This is evidence of the UAEU’s success in supporting research and education to advance science and practical application of intelligent technologies. I am also pleased that the students have participated in an international event that allows them to network and build relationships with students and scholars in their field. When students collaborate like this, they build bonds and innovative ideas. The UAEU places great value on international activities of our students and provides them with every support needed to take advantage of opportunities like this global conference and competition".
Dr Belkacem explained, "Participation in the conference is a vital means to strengthen the college and university efforts to prepare graduates to be innovative, creative and future-ready. The student team developed a robotic communications system that reads a record of brain activity (electroencephalogram) and translates it into commands that allow users to speak to others. This system assists people of determination paralysed through stroke, spinal cord injuries, broken neck, or deaf and mute.
Expressing delight at the prize, team leader, Al Balooshi, said, "The victory is the fruit of hard work. The team worked together diligently for long hours. We had unlimited support from our academic staff, who opened our horizons to the possibilities of innovations that would refine our skills and the end-product. This enabled us to compete with confidence against a global field of students from many disciplines."
Describing the project, he said, "It is distinguished by the inclusion of a speech-to-text engine. This enables the user to read the speech and activates an automated response system. That system relies on Neuro-Linguistic Processing technology and moves the robot's parts by sending commands to the brain."
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