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Application Categories

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This is a rough categorization that may change with time.

Clinical

  • Medical Diagnosis and Treatment through body/mind state interpretation and/or neurostimulation therapies
    • Altzheimers
    • Stroke
    • Depression
    • ADHD

RC/UI

  • Remote Control / User Interface - Assisted control of mechanical, electrical, and digital devices/applications
    • Human in-the-loop collision avoidance for self driving cars and other autopilot situations
    • Operating Systems, Video Games, Word Processors, Web Browsers, Search Engines
    • RC Vehicles, Robotic Systems, IOT Devices

Subjective Measurement

  • Objective measurement of subjective experiences through mind/body state interpretation
    • Success of meditation techniques
    • Dreams
    • Mood
    • Attention
 
Map of Subjective Feelings

Source

Motor-Sensory Augmentation

  • Feedback through neurostimulation techniques
    • Restoration of lost senses
    • Improvement/addition of senses (Automatic translation of any language)
    • Shared senses/Telepathy

Wetware Computing

  • The sensing and stimulation of in vitro neural networks to perform calculations.