This half-day STEM outreach workshop introduces pre-university students from HCI (JC) under the CENTAD programme to hands-on experimental research using 32-channel EEG and multimodal sensing technologies. The workshop is designed to prepare students for upcoming research projects involving brain–computer interfaces, human–machine interaction, cognitive neuroscience, rehabilitation engineering, and wearable biomedical sensing.
Participants will learn how EEG and complementary sensors such as IMUs, goniometers, eye trackers, cameras, and pressure sensors can be used to study brain activity, movement, attention, perception, and human behavior during controlled experiments. The session combines conceptual introduction, live hardware demonstration, guided experimental design, basic signal interpretation, and student project brainstorming.
The workshop emphasizes safe and ethical human-subject data collection, sensor setup principles, event synchronization, multimodal data quality, and research-question formulation. By the end of the session, students will have a clearer understanding of how to design feasible EEG-based and multimodal sensing experiments for their own STEM research projects.
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
- Understand the basic principles of EEG, brain signals, and non-invasive brain–computer interfaces.
- Recognize how multimodal sensors such as IMU, goniometers, eye trackers, cameras, and pressure sensors complement EEG measurements.
- Identify common experimental design considerations for EEG and human-subject sensing studies.
- Understand basic concepts of sensor placement, signal quality, artifacts, synchronization, and data annotation.
- Develop an initial research idea suitable for a student-led STEM or biomedical engineering project.