MYND - A Platform for Large-scale Neuroscientific Studies.

We present a smartphone application for at-home participation in large-scale neuroscientific studies. Our goal is to establish user-experience design as a paradigm in basic neuroscientific research to overcome the limits of current studies, especially in rare neurological disorders.The presented application guides users through the fitting procedure of the EEG headset and automatically encrypts and uploads recorded data to a remote server. User-feedback and neurophysiological data from a pilot study with eighteen subjects indicate that the application can be used outside of a laboratory, without the need for external guidance. We hope to inspire future work on the intersection between basic neuroscience and human-computer interaction as a promising paradigm to accelerate research on rare neurological diseases and assistive neurotechnology.