Air-Guitar Hero: A real-time video game interface for training and evaluation of dexterous upper-extremity neuroprosthetic control algorithms

We developed an interface to the commercial video game Guitar Heroreg III using surface electromyography (EMG) to create a novel training and evaluation device for upperextremity amputees. Rather than pressing the keys with onepsilas fingers as in the normal game, in our modified version a user merely flexes his or her index, middle, or ring finger muscles, and the resulting myoelectric activity is recorded using six or more EMG electrodes...