SpotlessMind: A Design Probe for Eliciting Attitudes towards Sharing Neurofeedback

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Passant Elagroudy, Xiyue Wang, Evgeny Stemasov, Teresa Hirzle, Svetlana Shishkovets, Siddharth Mehrotra, Albrecht Schmidt
Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference, 2020, pp. 1--8

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Elagroudy, P., Wang, X., Stemasov, E., Hirzle, T., Shishkovets, S., Mehrotra, S., & Schmidt, A. (2020). SpotlessMind: A Design Probe for Eliciting Attitudes towards Sharing Neurofeedback. In Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference (pp. 1–8).

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Elagroudy, Passant, Xiyue Wang, Evgeny Stemasov, Teresa Hirzle, Svetlana Shishkovets, Siddharth Mehrotra, and Albrecht Schmidt. “SpotlessMind: A Design Probe for Eliciting Attitudes towards Sharing Neurofeedback.” In Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference, 1–8, 2020.

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Elagroudy, Passant, et al. “SpotlessMind: A Design Probe for Eliciting Attitudes towards Sharing Neurofeedback.” Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference, 2020, pp. 1–8.

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@inproceedings{elagroudy2020a,
  title = {SpotlessMind: A Design Probe for Eliciting Attitudes towards Sharing Neurofeedback},
  year = {2020},
  pages = {1--8},
  author = {Elagroudy, Passant and Wang, Xiyue and Stemasov, Evgeny and Hirzle, Teresa and Shishkovets, Svetlana and Mehrotra, Siddharth and Schmidt, Albrecht},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference}
}

Abstract:
Mutual understanding via sharing and interpreting inner states is socially rewarding. Prior research shows that people find Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) a suitable tool to implicitly communicate their cognitive states. In this paper, we conduct an online survey (N=43) to identify design parameters for systems that implicitly share cognitive states. We achieve this by designing a research probe called "SpotlessMind" to artistically share brain occupancy with another while considering the bystanders’ experience to elicit user responses. Our results show that 98% would like to see the installation. People would use it as a gesture of openness and as a communication mediator. Abstracting visual, auditory, and somatosensory depictions is a good trade-off between understandability and users’ privacy protection. Our work supports designing engaging prototypes that promote empathy, cognitive awareness and convergence between individuals.