EEG/ERP Portal for Android Platform
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University of West Bohemia, New Technologies for the Information Society, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Czechia
We deal with collecting experimental data from Electroencephalography (EEG) and Event-Related Potentials (ERP). Lack of tools for experimental data/metadata management has been solved by developing the EEG/ERP Portal. The advantage of the EEG/ERP Portal is its availability from every computer connected to the Internet. Such solution is sufficient for collecting the most of experiments performed in the laboratory. On the other hand, situations when using a computer is not a viable option are frequent. Many experiments are conducted outside the laboratory with a portable measuring device. In this environment a desktop computer with internet connectivity is usually not available. The other use case is a situation when a researcher discusses the experimental results with colleagues at workshops. A mobile device synchronized with the EEG/ERP Portal seems to be a practical solution.
Facing mentioned needs we have developed a system for collecting experimental data/metadata running on mobile devices. The Android was selected as a mobile operation system because it provides a free SDK with a well-documented API. In addition, the Android is very often used in the current devices.
The system contains a set of forms where a user can fill metadata describing an experiment. The set of metadata is equivalent to metadata that the user can fill in the EEG/ERP Portal. The metadata are described by the internal portal ontology. In addition, the user can upload binary data. The communication of both the mobile EEG/ERP Portal and web EEG/ERP Portal is ensured using RESTfull web services. Server-client architecture is used. A server part is implemented in the EEG/ERP Portal. The server provides access to the database and sends data to the client implemented inside the mobile device. The communication between the server and client is secured using SSL protocol. User credentials are required; the EEG/ERP Portal user account is used to verify the client.
The application is hosted in GitHub repository: https://github.com/NEUROINFORMATICS-GROUP-FAV-KIV-ZCU/eeg-database-for-android. Users are welcome to download and test it.
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Project "NTIS – New Technologies for Information Society", European Centre of Excellence, CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0090.
Keywords:
EEG/ERP Portal,
database,
metadata,
mobile device,
Android
Conference:
Neuroinformatics 2013, Stockholm, Sweden, 27 Aug - 29 Aug, 2013.
Presentation Type:
Poster
Topic:
Electrophysiology
Citation:
Jezek
P and
Moucek
R
(2013). EEG/ERP Portal for Android Platform.
Front. Neuroinform.
Conference Abstract:
Neuroinformatics 2013.
doi: 10.3389/conf.fninf.2013.09.00046
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Received:
26 Apr 2013;
Published Online:
11 Jul 2013.
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Correspondence:
Mr. Petr Jezek, University of West Bohemia, New Technologies for the Information Society, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Plzeň, 30614, Czechia, jezekp@kiv.zcu.cz