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>From WorkS-REQUEST@MIT-AI Sat Jul 25 11:23:30 1981
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Date: 23 Jul 1981 0905-EDT
From: Eric K. Olson <OLSON at DEC-MARLBORO>
Subject: Mind Link
To: Kosower at PARC-MAXC
Message-ID: <MS"5(1631)"11746291285.20.545.6341 at DEC-MARLBORO>

You may have been joking, but this is a project that (seriously) 
interests me.  I have always felt that it would be fairly simple
(facile compared to speech or picture recognition) to connect a
few electrodes to different tiny muscles (jaw, eye, face, finger,
toe) and use the relatively large spikes from moving these muscles
to control a cursor, or even do complete typing.  I have great
faith in the human animal being able to learn how to control
something very complicated via difficult motions (for instance,
positioning his fingers over a pre-defined spot on a board with
cells labeled QWERTYUIOP... and pressing down, without looking).  

If there are any Bio-electronics people out there, I'd love to
actually do the project.  I KNOW it can be done, but I have not
the knowledge to grab the signals off the body (the rest is easy).

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Date: 24 Jul 1981 1435-EDT
From: Eric K. Olson <OLSON at DEC-MARLBORO>
Subject: A simple question
Message-ID: <MS"5(1631)"11746613646.17.545.19286 at DEC-MARLBORO>

This may seem like a trivial question, but remember back to when
you didn't know the answer, and then tell me:

        What's inside a mouse or trackball?
        How is the relative motion data gathered?

Please send responses to me; I will send back to the mailing list
the clearest.

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