Millions of people live with the consequences of stroke, which often include cognitive impairments. A wide
gap exists between clinical rehabilitation and care, monitoring and support of patients at home to maximize
independent, socially integrated living. CONTRAST will bridge this gap by developing easy-to-use auto-adaptive
human-machine interfaces (HCI) which can be used in the sub-acute rehabilitation phase and further at the
patients’ home. Training modules for cognitive enhancement will be tailored to the individual and remote data
processing and support systems will allow for continuous monitoring of health parameters to evaluate individual
progress and for shared patient-expert decision. We will develop, test, and upgrade our brain-neural-computer
interface (BNCI) based neurofeedback tools, based on findings that increasing power in specific EEG frequency
bands can improve long-term cognitive performance. CONTRAST targets the cognitive function of interest
directly in the brain. Thus, CONTRAST will contribute to new medical and practical knowledge for guiding
and improving intervention for daily life functioning after stroke. The aims of CONTRAST are the development
of (1) a new architecture of HCI that is adaptive and integrates remote processing and shared decision
making; (2) an accurate, individually tailored intervention for improvement of cognitive function guided by
medical and neuropsychological assessment; (3) a HCI neurofeedback based cognitive enhancement training
including automated reward systems to maintain patient motivation; (4) a continuous onsite and remote
monitoring of health parameters and evaluation; (5) exploitation and dissemination. While these are ambitious
aims, the combination of Universities, Companies, Hospitals, Rehabilitation Centres and User Groups within
CONTRAST provides the experience, connections, and infrastructure necessary to have a real impact on
disease management, medical knowledge, PHS, and stroke patients.