IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine - January 2018 - 51

BMI WORKSHOP COMMITTEE
General Chair
Michael H. Smith, UC Berkeley, USA
General Co-Chairs
Tiago H. Falk, INRS-EMT, Canada
Christoph Guger, g.tec, Austria
Ljiljana Trajković, SFU, Canada
Technical Program Chairs
Masayuki Hirata, Osaka Univ., Japan
Jun Morimoto, ATR, Japan
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Ricardo Chavarriaga, EPFL, Switzerland
Jing Jin, East China Univ., China
Riki Matsumoto, Kyoto Univ. Japan
Yingxu Wang, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
Special Sessions Chairs
Kyousuke Kamada, AMU, Japan
Keiichi Kitajo, RIKEN BSI, Japan
Special Sessions Co-Chairs
Yaoping Hu, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
Vinod Prasad, ITT Palakkad, India
Ivan Volosyak, HSRW, Germany
Fei-Yue Wang, CAS, China
Dongrui Wu, DataNova, USA

CALL FOR PAPERS AND SPECIAL SESSIONS
2018 Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface Systems
The IEEE SMC 2018 8th Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface Systems (BMI) will be held on October
7-10, 2018 in Miyazaki, Japan as part of the program of SMC 2018 - the flagship annual conference of the
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers
to present research results, facilitate the interaction and intellectual exchange between researchers, developers
and consumers of BMI technology. We invite contributions reporting the latest advances, innovations and
applications in the field of BMI.
The workshop is organized by the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Brain-Machine Interfaces Systems
and is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Brain Initiative. Participation is free to all registered SMC
2018 attendees. The theme of this year's workshop is:

Innovations in Systems, (Hu)Man, and Cybernetics, and their Interplay as the
Driving Forces for Next-Generation BMI Systems

Media
Sarah Breinbauer, br41n.io, Austria

Brain-machine interfaces rely on innovations across a number of disciplines (and their interplay), and
in particular within the fields of systems engineering, human factors analysis, and cybernetics. In order
to develop the next-generation BMI systems that are envisioned today, such as brain-to-brain
interfaces, "neural dust", optical imaging, non-invasive neurostimulation, and BMI systems to sense,
assess, and augment human capabilities, researchers across different fields will need to come together
and join forces. Recent advances seen in neuroimaging, artificial intelligence, virtual/augmented reality,
human-machine interaction, cloud computing, and nanotechnology suggest we are at a prime time for
such interdisciplinary exploration.

Secretary
S. Mason Dambrot, AGIS and BMIC, USA

Call for Papers and Special Sessions

Publicity Chairs, Sponsorship, Exhibits
Yufei Huang, UTSA, USA
Margaret Thompson, UW, USA

BMI WORKSHOP INVITED SPEAKERS
Andrzej Cichocki, Skoltech, Russia
Mitsuo Kawato, ATR, Japan
PANELS
Important Topics in Designing and Building
Real World BMI Systems: What is New?
How Research and Methodologies in
Systems, Human-Machine Systems, and
Cybernetics can be applied to BMI
Merging Minds and Machines: Integrating
BMI with AI, VR, and AR - Hype or Hope
What Have We Learned, Where Do We Go
From Here?
TUTORIALS
BMI systems - overview, applications and
research challenges
Designing BMIs for ALS and other users
with motor and cognitive disabilities
BRAIN HACKATHON COMMITTEE
Chair
Christoph Guger, g.tec, Austria
Co-Chairs
Tiago H. Falk, INRS-EMT, Canada
Kyousuke Kamada, Asahikawa Univ Japan
Tim Mullen, Intheon, USA
Chairs, Hackathon Student Competition
Kojiro Matsushita, Gifu Univ., Japan
Takeshi Ogawa, ATR, Japan

The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present research results, facilitate the
interaction and intellectual exchange between researchers, developers, and consumers of BMI
technology. We invite contributions reporting the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the
field of BMI, including affective BMIs, hybrid BMIs, deep learning for BMIs, BMI-controlled robots,
neurorehabilitation, and BMI for VR/AR applications. These and other topics represent both challenges to
the field and a tremendous opportunity for collaborative and multidisciplinary research, involving not only
peers with expertise in the field of BMI, but also those with expertise in systems engineering, humanmachine systems, cybernetics, neuroscience, medicine, robotics, amongst other disciplines. The four-day
workshop will feature tutorials, panels, a brain-computer interface hackathon, a number of
prominent invited speakers from industry and academia, and presentations of contributed papers.
This is the third year that the IEEE SMC BMI Workshop is hosting a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)
Hackathon with over $4,000 in prizes. The BCI Hackathon is a brainstorming and collaborative marathon
designed to rapidly produce fully functional BCI prototypes. The BCI Hackathon will take place on
October 7-8, 2018 and provides an environment for innovation and entrepreneurship. Learn more about
the IEEE SMC2018 BCI Hackathon projects and teams, how to form or join one, and how to register at
br41n.io/Miyazaki-2018.

Important Dates
Special Sessions proposal due: February 23, 2018
Approval of Special Session proposals: March 16, 2018
Paper submission due: March 31, 2018
Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2018
Author registration deadline: July 10, 2018
Camera-ready deadline: July 20, 2018
Conference dates: October 7-10, 2018
Papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers electronically through the conference
website. Papers should be concise, but contain sufficient detail and references to allow critical review.

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Note: Accepted papers that are not physically presented at SMC 2018 will be excluded from the IEEE
proceedings.
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Systems

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