Work/Science communication
The BCI Briefing
An independent editorial project that follows the field of brain–computer interfaces: research, clinical studies, technology and companies. I publish it privately. It is a personal project for science communication and research information, and it is not affiliated with my employer.
- My role
- Publisher
- Period
- Since 2026
Purpose
Work on brain–computer interfaces is reported in places that rarely meet: journals, trial registries, patent offices and company announcements. A reader who wants to know what has actually been shown, in how many people and with what kind of evidence, has to assemble the answer from all of them.
The Briefing puts these sources into one structure. Papers, clinical studies, companies, datasets, software and funding are entries in a connected corpus, and each entry links to the others it depends on.
Evidence
The project’s rule is that every claim carries its source and the kind of evidence behind it. Papers are checked against PubMed, clinical studies are read from ClinicalTrials.gov, software repositories from GitHub, and news is checked against its original source. Entries that have not been re-verified say so, and analysis is marked as analysis.
The corpus is curated and makes no claim to completeness. The site describes it as a curated corpus and not a census of the field; in October 2026 it held 386 entries. Corrections and additions can be suggested on the site.
Contents
- Briefing
- Developments in the field, each with an assessment of the evidence behind it.
- Research
- Peer-reviewed papers, summarised in a consistent form.
- Clinical studies
- Registered human studies and their status.
- Companies
- Organisations by type of interface and clinical stage.
- Frontier
- Capability domains, separating what has been demonstrated from what is emerging.
- Tools and datasets
- Open-source software and public data for people who build.
Further sections cover trends, longer dossiers, events, patents, funding and regions.