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Teymourian, A., Lueth, T., Graeser, A., Felzer, T. and Nordmann, R. (2008): Brain-controlled finite state machine for wheelchair navigation. In: ASSETS 2008 - Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Pages 257-258. ACM Press.

Poster proposal introducing an SSVEP-controlled wheelchair model - 114 KB teymourian_assets08.pdf
Felzer, T. and Nordmann, R. (2008): Evaluating the Hands-Free Mouse Control System: An Initial Case Study. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Computers Helping People with Special Needs. Volume 5105/2008. Pages 1188-1195. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.

First time HaMCoS was tried by someone other than the first author - 278 KB felzer_icchp08.pdf
Silva, L. C. A., Felzer, T., Delgado, G. G. N., Nordmann, R., and Dedini, F. G. (2008): Modeling a Hands-Free Controlled Power Wheelchair. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Computers Helping People with Special Needs. Volume 5105/2008. Pages 1261-1268. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.

Interfaces a wheelchair model developed at the University of Campinas (Brazil) with HaWCoS - 369 KB silva_icchp08.pdf
Coelho, M. A. O., Trabasso, L. G., Nordmann, R., Felzer, T., and Dedini, F. G. (2008): A user centred mechatronics design method. In: Proceedings of the 11th Mechatronics Forum Biennial International Conference (Mechatronics08), University of Limerick, Ireland. Paper 138. Pages 1-6.

Talks on the design of an electrically powered wheelchair (first concentrates on a low-cost wheelchair developed in Brazil, and then mentions the DANA project - for Darmstadt Active Navigation Assistant - proposed in Germany) - 115 KB coelho_mechatronics08.pdf
Felzer, T. and Nordmann, R. (2008): Using Intentional Muscle Contractions as Input Signals for Various Hands-free Control Applications. In: Proceedings of the Second international Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology (i-CREATe 2008), Bangkok, Thailand. Pages 87-91. ACM Press.

Description of HaMCoS and HaWCoS and proposal of a scanning-based Environment Control System - 864 KB felzer_iCREATe2008.pdf
Felzer, T., Strah, B., and Nordmann, R. (2008): Automatic And Self-Paced Scanning For Alternative Text Entry. In: Proceedings of the Fourth IASTED International Conference on Telehealth and Assistive Technologies (Telehealth/AT 2008), Baltimore, MD, USA. Pages 1-6.

Introduction of the HaMCoS scanning application Scan_LURD - 158 KB felzer_at2008.pdf
Felzer, T. and Nordmann, R. (2007): Consolidating Computer Operation and Wheelchair Control. In: ASSETS 2007 - Proceedings of the Ninth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Tempe, AZ, USA. Pages 239-240. ACM Press.

Demo proposal combining HaMCoS and HaWCoS - 288 KB felzer_assets07.pdf
Felzer, T., Ernst, M., Strah, B., and Nordmann, R. (2007): Accessibility Research at the Department of Mechatronics at Darmstadt University of Technology. In: SIGACCESS Access. Comput.. Number 88, Pages 19-28. ACM Press.

What our research group does - 841 KB felzer_june07.pdf
Felzer, T. and Nordmann, R. (2007): Alternative Wheelchair Control. In: RAT 2007 - Proceedings of the International IEEE-BAIS Symposium on Research on Assistive Technologies, Dayton, OH, USA. Pages 67-74. IEEE Computer Society.

2007 version of HaWCoS - the "HAnds-free Wheelchair COntrol System" - 565 KB felzer_rat07.pdf
Felzer, T. and Nordmann, R. (2006): Alternative Text Entry Using Different Input Methods. In: ASSETS 2006 - Proceedings of the Eighth International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Portland, OR, USA. Pages 10-17. ACM Press.

Text entry based on Morse code - introduction of the "HaMCoS" framework application "LURD-Writer" - 518 KB felzer_assets06.pdf
Felzer, T. and Nordmann, R. (2006): Speeding up Hands-free Text Entry. In: CWUAAT'06 - Proceedings of the 3rd Cambridge Workshop on UNIVERSAL ACCESS and ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, UK. Pages 27-36. Cambridge University Press.

Some words on the word completion feature built into HaMCoS - 116 KB felzer_cambridge.pdf
Felzer, T. and Nordmann, R. (2005): How To Operate a PC Without Using the Hands. In: ASSETS 2005 - Proceedings of the Seventh International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, Baltimore, MD, USA. Pages 198-199. ACM Press.

Demo proposal dealing with "HaMCoS" (The Hands-free Mouse Control System) - 68 KB assets05.pdf
Felzer, T., Fischer, R., Grönsfelder, T., and Nordmann, R. (2005): Alternative control system for operating a PC using intentional muscle contractions only. In: Online-Proceedings of the 2005 CSUN Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities, Los Angeles, California, USA. URL: http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/2005/proceedings/2121.htm .

Brief paper introducing alternative mouse driver - 115 KB CSUN05.pdf
Felzer, T. and Freisleben, B. (2003): Analyzing EEG signals using the probability estimating guarded neural classifier. In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. Volume 11, Number 4, December 2003. Pages 361-371. IEEE press.

Special neural architecture - 433 KB pegnc_ieee.pdf
Felzer, T. (2002): Verwendung verschiedener Biosignale zur Bedienung computergesteuerter Systeme (Using various kinds of bio-signals for controlling computer-mediated systems). Ph. D. Thesis (in German with German AND English abstract). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin. ISBN 3-932089-99-5. (Darmstadt University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Darmstadt, Germany)

Part 1 (without appendix and references) - 1.5 MB diss_1.pdf
Part 2 (appendix and references) - 2.7 MB diss_2.pdf
Felzer, T. and Freisleben, B. (2002): HaWCoS: The "Hands-free" Wheelchair Control System. In: ASSETS 2002 - Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies, Edinburgh, Scotland. Pages 127-134. ACM Press.

"Main" HCI (Human-Computer Interface) paper - 2.8 MB assets02.pdf
Felzer, T. and Freisleben, B. (2002): BRAINLINK: A Software Tool Supporting the Development of an EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interface. In: METMBS '02 - Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Volume 2. Pages 329-335. CSREA Press.

Some kind of Software Manual - 1.1 MB metmbs02.pdf
Felzer, T. and Freisleben, B. (2002): Controlling a Computer Using Signals Originating from Muscle Contractions. In: METMBS '02 - Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Volume 2. Pages 336-342. CSREA Press.

EMG instead of EEG (a "short version" of aid.pdf, see below) - 56 KB metmbs_b.pdf
Felzer, T. and Freisleben, B. (2002): An Input Method for Human-Computer Interaction based on Muscle Control. (to be submitted for publication, finished in 2002). 9 pages.

About to be published ... - 181 KB aid.pdf
Felzer, T., Freisleben, B., and Hoof, M. (2002): The Guarded Neural Classifier. (to be submitted for publication, finished in 2002). 4 pages.

About to be published ... - 94 KB gnc.pdf
Felzer, T., Freisleben, B., and Hoof, M. (2001): The Guarded Neural Classifier. (submitted for publication in 2001). 7 pages.

Extended, original version of gnc.pdf (see above) - 132 KB gnc_a.pdf
Felzer, T. (2001): On the Possibility of Developing a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI). Technical Report. 27 pages.

Some kind of "short version" of large parts of my dissertation in English - 253 KB eeg.pdf
Felzer, T., Hartmann, P., Hohm, K., and Marenbach, P. (1997): Motor Sequence Processing with an Artificial Learning System. In: Biological and Artificial Computation: From Neuroscience to Technology - Proceedings of the International Work-Conference on Artificial and Natural Neural Networks, IWANN '97, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain (Mira, J., Moreno-Díaz, R., and Cabestany, J., Eds.). Volume 1240 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Pages 1307-1314. Springer-Verlag.

Those eight pages have been scanned - 368 KB iwann97.pdf
Hartmann, P., Felzer, T., Bleeck, S., and Tomlinson, R. W. W. (1996): Simulating Physiological Behaviour of Neurons. In: Bio-Informatics and Pulspropagating Networks: BioNet '96 - Selected Contributions. GFaI Berlin. Pages 39-44.

Those six pages have been scanned - 450 KB bionet96.pdf
Felzer, T. (1996): Analyse menschlicher Bewegungssequenzen im Hinblick auf eine Übertragbarkeit auf Künstliche Lernende Systeme. Diploma thesis (German eqivalent of a Master's thesis). Darmstadt University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Darmstadt, Germany.

Established in cooperation with the Control Systems Theory and Robotics Department at Darmstadt - 1.0 MB dipl_arb.pdf
Hohm, K., Felzer, T., and Marenbach, P. (1996): Parameterized Temporal Sequences for Motor Control of a Robot System. In: MSCA '96 - Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on New Directions in Control and Automation, Crete, Greece. Pages 276-280.

Those five pages have been scanned - 419 KB msca96.pdf
Felzer, T. (1994): Artificial Neural Networks. MS Comprehensive Examination. University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Computer Science, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Final paper for earning the degree "Master of Science" - 130 KB comp.pdf
Felzer, T., Heidger, A., and Wiesiollek, M. (1993): Beaufsichtigtes Lernen. Seminar "Neural Nets" - Presentation draft (in German). Darmstadt University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Darmstadt, Germany.

The appendix contains a PASCAL implementation of the famous back-propagation learning algorithm - 609 KB nn_sem.pdf


Last update: January 14, 2009 by Torsten Felzer.	(felzer@mail.com)