Developing Brain-Computer Interfaces with Everyone.

Throughout its history, the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) has offered people with severe motor disabilities the opportunity to engage with their environments using brain activity alone. Contemporary solutions, however, lack support for reliable evaluation by researchers, independent use by patients and their caregivers, or creative extension by students, artists, and software developers at home. This paper provides preliminary guidance on the integration of research engagement activities into BCI research to enable use at home. Alongside key principles for enabling Research Engagement Always And With Everyone, we present the initial specification for a standardized software ecosystem that could enable the rapid development of high-performance BCI applications on the Open Web. By integrating Open Web technologies alongside engagement activities in current research programs, we argue that participation in the development of a new generation of at-home BCI systems can be widened.