Paranthaman’s lecture was on the topic “Towards Applying Brain-Computer Interface in User Research and Interactive Applications.”  Graduate students from data science, computer science, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity participated in this lecture.

In this talk, Paranthaman discussed fundamentals of brain-computer interface (BCI), applications, and examples from his ongoing research projects in virtual and mixed reality game systems. Paranthaman also demonstrated prototypes from his research involving the incorporation of BCI in games research for investigating players’ emotional states. For this, he showed a live demonstration of applications controlled using a BCI device.

In this guest lecture, Paranthaman presented a talk on titled, “Towards Prototyping and Developing Immersive Technology Applications,” and in this talk he discussed the design considerations, ways for incorporating novel game mechanics, and importance of analyzing single modal and multimodal interactions in mixed reality game systems.

In this talk, Paranthaman demonstrated a multimodal mixed reality game system and toward the end of the talk he addressed several questions from students and faculty who participated in this guest lecture.

This talk also included initial findings from Paranthaman’s ongoing research project on mixed reality games that is he is working with Logan LaMont ’23, a computer science major and game design minor. LaMont started working with Paranthaman in spring 2022 and continued his research for the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience in the summer 2022 semester. In this project LaMont developed five playable game systems in the mixed reality platform.