Institute for Knowledge Discovery (ISD)

Leiterin: Neuper Christa

Krenngasse 37, 8010 Graz, Österreich
Tel.: (+43 316) 873 5318
Fax: (+43 316) 873 5301

Homepage: http://bci.tugraz.at/

This newly founded Institute for Knowledge Discovery is based on the unusually succesful activities of Prof. Dr. Gert Pfurtscheller in the area of brain-computer communication. He was also the head of the institute till end of the year 2005
The BCI-Lab is one of the leading labs in brain-computer communication worldwide. It is an internationally renowned research institution with a research focus on brain-computer interfaces and functional brain imagery. More specifically, the BCI-Lab has extensive expertise in EEG recording, offline and online (real-time) processing of brain signals and biosignals in general, feature extraction, detection and classification of brain patterns, as well as design of and training with neurofeedback systems.

Professor Dr. Ch. Neuper (Head of the Institute)

Christa Neuper studied Psychology at the University of Graz and she received her habilitation in 2002. She was Assistent-Professor at the Insitute Institut of Psychology at the University Graz and held there many important lectures, but especially she also was collaborator of Professor Pfurtscheller at the Graz University of Technology from 1990 to 2005; first at the Institute for Medical Informatics, then at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Medical Informatics and Neuroinformatics. Since 2005 she is Professor at the University Graz for Applied Neuropsychology and Human-Computer-Interfaces and since beginning of 2006 she is the head of the Institute for Knowledge Discovery.

Mrs Prof. Neuper has played a leadership role in many international projects, is member of many international committees and has published outstanding papers in her fields of research, which are today Human-Computer-Interfaces, Neuro-Feedback, EEG-based Brain-Computer-Communication and Neurorehabilitation, Brain Oscillations and Cognition, and behavior in Virtual Reality.

Picture: Navigation in a virtual street with the help of an eines EEG-based BCI