James Condron
Brain Stuff
James was born in
the quiet village of Nobber in North Meath and is painfully aware of how
funny it sounds. He joined Mindgames Research Group towards the end of
his Phd. doctoral
thesis at D.I.T. Kevin Street Dublin. Whilst in D.I.T he spent his time
researching into
quadratic time frequency energy distributions for use in biomedical rehabilitation,
in the
biomedical engineering section of the control systems department of Kevin
Street.
His academic interests
include neurofeedback, functional electrical stimulation, brain ailment
classification, biometric classification and nuclear magnetic physics.
He worked for a
Rendering plant in his hometown for many years as a control systems engineer
specialising
in Man Machine interfacing for Programmable Logic Controllers. Outside
of work James is
actively interested in celtic traditional culture.He has a worrying interest
in old weaponry
such as swords, axes, longbows, crossbows and onagers.
He also
likes drinking heavily and starting fights. He enjoys carving wood sculptures
and tending to the trees in his orchard. He has strong beliefs in ancient
ways
and holds sacred a strong faith in the power of friendship.
During his stay in MediaLab Europe James hopes to apply his knowledge
of cortical
resonance's, EEG biofeedback, and Digital Signal Processing to further
the group in creating
virtual environments which will use biofeedback not only as a navigation
tool but also as a
method of improving the quality of the user. His main goal is to investigate
and produce
biofeedback protocols, which will work effectively with the games engines
being developed.