Muscle Computer Interface: A Review
A new kind of human computer interface using electrical activity of muscles, known as Muscle computer Interface (muCI) has been developed by researchers. With an intention of unfolding current status of muCIs, original research articles, review articles,
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Abstract A new kind of human computer interface using electrical activity of muscles, known as Muscle computer Interface (muCI) has been developed by researchers. With an intention of unfolding current status of muCIs, original research articles, review articles, reports, books, news etc. from authentic printed and online sources involving different search engines and libraries have been searched and critically studied by authors of present paper. This review has successfully highlighted developments of different sEMG based interfaces such as hand movement/gesture recognition interfaces, facial gesture recognition interfaces, myoelectric prosthetic arms, muscle fatigue analysis and other sort of interfaces. It has also covered the comparison between muCI and BCI, methodologies used for signal classification for muCI and the various shortcomings of the current muCIs. As muCI is still at its initial stages of development, it has been envisaged by the authors that present paper would help researchers to explore new ideas in emerging areas of muCI’s. Keywords Human computer interface computer interface Signals processing
Brain computer interface
Muscle
A. Chowdhury R. Ramadas S. Karmakar (&) Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, Guwahati 781039, India e-mail: [email protected] A. Chowdhury e-mail: [email protected] R. Ramadas e-mail: [email protected]
A. Chakrabarti and R. V. Prakash (eds.), ICoRD’13, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1050-4_33, Ó Springer India 2013
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1 Introduction Many human computer interaction (HCI) technologies are now well established. Among different developmental phases of HCI, researches on brain computer interaction (BCI) are very popular. Brain computer interfaces are very much helpful to overcome many human limitations such as assisting, augmenting or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions [1–3]. In recent years a new means of HCI is focused on Muscle Computer Interface (muCIs). Muscle computer interface is a user interface in which user employs electrical activity of their muscle as an input while they are executing various tasks. In other words in such interaction people may control devices using their myoelectrical signals. Though the term Muscle Computer Interface is relatively new, usage of myoelectric devices employing sEMG electrodes has long history. From the past, EMG signals have been successfully used in several fields such as medicine [4, 5], understanding neurophysiological disorders (e.g. neuropathy, myopathy etc.) [1], development of prosthetic arm [6, 7], fatigue detection devices [8–10] etc. Only few articles state information about muCI in details. On contrary, there is a lot of information available on subjects which are related to muCI like electromyography and muscle signal processing [6, 7, 11–22], HCI [1, 23], BCI [1–3, 16] etc. In the present paper an attempt has been made to review the current status of muCI for u
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