A team of researchers from the Faculty of Computer Sciences of VSU headed by Yaroslav Turovsky, DSc in Technical Sciences and PhD in Medicine, Professor at the Department of Digital Technologies, won a Russian Science Foundation grant. The VSU researchers work jointly with researchers from Institute of Control Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the mutual adaptation of users and human-computer interfaces. They are going to study the specifics of controlling devices by means of eye-tracking and myographic interfaces, as well as a brain-computer interface. The VSU team also includes Sergey Borzunov, PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor at the Department of Digital Technologies, and Viktor Alexeev, a PhD student.
The project is to be implemented in 2023–2025. The aim of the project is to assess the process of the mutual adaptation of users and human-computer interfaces and then use this data to develop technical solutions enhancing the effectiveness of control over ergatic systems, i.e. systems that involve human-technical system relations.
“For many technical systems human input is important, it is often the key element for the generation of managerial decisions. Such systems are called ergatic. In such systems you can generate commands by pressing a key, or, otherwise, by eye movements, myoelectrical activity, or brain activity signals. This is the way eye-tracking, myographic, and human-computer interfaces work. For them to work effectively it’s important to adjust them to a specific user not only before the work starts, but during the process as well. This is what our projects is about”, said Yaroslav Turovsky.
