Preface
This book contains the scientific contributions to the 5th
International Brain-Computer Interface Conference (2011), held in Graz,
Austria.
After the positive responses to the first four International
Brain-Computer Interface Workshops and Training Courses we decided to
change the style and expand the event into a Conference, since we want
to provide a platform for scientific exchange within the Brain-Computer
Interface research community. Here, researchers can present their own
work either in the form of a talk or a poster presentation. For this
purpose we encouraged the participants to submit papers, which were
peer-reviewed and are published in this issue.
The BCI meetings held
in Graz, Austria, may be considered to be a European initiative in the
held of EEG-based Brain-Computer Interfaces that contributes to a
stronger orientation towards scientific cooperation.
We are lucky
that outstanding experts in the held, Prof. Jonathan Wolpaw (Wadsworth
Center,Albany,NY,USA),Nick Ramsey (UMC Utrecht,Rudolf Magnus
Institute,Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery) and Dr. Donatella
Mattia (Fondazione Santa Lucia,Rome,Italy) were able to accept our
invitation to present keynote addresses at the Conference.
During
preparation of these proceedings many people have been involved. Here we
want to acknowledge the work of the reviewers who contributed with
their expertise and knowledge:
Andrea Kübler
Clemens Brunner
Brendan Z. Allison
Teodoro Solis-Escalante
Fabien Lotte
Moritz Grosse-Wentrup
Shin Kanoh
Donatella Mattia
Michael Tangermann
Febo Cincotti
Laura Astol
Luigi Bianchi
Robert Leeb
Theresa Vaughan
Benjamin Blankertz
Cuntai Guan
Ian Daly
Jeremy Hill
Peter Desain
Sonja Kleih
Tzyy-Ping Jung
Thorsten Zander
Carmen Vidaurre
Stefano Silvoni
Selina Wriessnegger
Eric Sellers
Ricardo Ron-Angevin
Dean Krusienski
Ricardo Chavarriaga
Femke Nijboer
Fabio Babiloni
Klaus-Robert Müller
Jose Millan
Jane Huggins
Francesco Piccione
Adrian Lee
Gunther Bauernfeind
Petar Horki
Christian Breitwieser
Lisa Friedrich
Felix Darvas

We
gratefully acknowledge the support of the Graz University of Technology
for providing the facilities and thank the staff of the Institute of
Knowledge Discovery, BCI-Lab, for their dedicated assistance. We hope
the content and scope of our program will contribute to a successful and
constructive 5th International Brain-Computer Interface Conference
2011!
The editorial board