Publications by Andreas Sonderegger

Advances on Real Time M/EEG Neural Feature Extraction

Nicolas Henchoz, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Andreas Sonderegger, Emily Clare Groves, Patrick Karl Alois Neff

This paper introduces MNE-RT, a Python package designed for real-time neural feature extraction from magne-toencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG) signals in Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) systems. The package incorporates efficient algori ...

IEEE2025

Designing Feedback Stimuli in Neurofeedback: Preliminary Requirements from Experts and Users

Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Nicolas Gninenko, Andreas Sonderegger, Emily Clare Groves, Patrick Karl Alois Neff

This study presents the first phase of a transdisciplinary research project aimed at improving the design of visual feedback stimuli in neurofeedback (NFB) applications. While current NFB research has focused extensively on signal processing and feature ex ...

IEEE2025

A user-centered design approach for crafting personalized guided meditation

Nicolas Henchoz, Cédric Duchene, Andreas Sonderegger, Romain Simon Collaud, Emily Clare Groves, Yoann Pierre Douillet

Interest in technology supporting meditation continues to grow commercially and academically. Commonly, these approaches look at how audio-visual feedback based on physiological indicators can help induce a state of meditation. Haptic feedback is now seen ...

Elsevier BV2025

Auditory Phantom Perceptions (Tinnitus) and Neurofeedback Training ‘In the Wild’: A Feasibility Study on Home Treatment

Delphine Ribes Lemay, Andreas Sonderegger, Patrick Karl Alois Neff

Tinnitus (TI) is a disease of the brain with high prevalence and often severe consequences for which no causal therapy approach has been established so far. Neurofeedback Training (NFT) is considered a promising approach to treat TI based on studies applyi ...

IEEE2025

Adapting Haptic Feedback for Guided Meditation

Nicolas Henchoz, Cédric Duchene, Andreas Sonderegger, Romain Simon Collaud, Emily Clare Groves, Yoann Pierre Douillet

Technology supporting meditation is a multimillion-dollar market that continues to grow. There is also strong academic interest to understand and improve the impact technology can have for the user experience of practitioners. However, little work investig ...

2023

Design standards for icons: The independent role of aesthetics, visual complexity and concreteness in icon design and icon understanding

Nicolas Henchoz, Andreas Sonderegger, Romain Simon Collaud

Icons play an important role in modern interfaces and therefore recent empirical research has focused on enhancing icon processing — that is, icon perception and icon function understanding. However, in existing sets, icons vary simultaneously across diffe ...

2022

Trust Indicators and Explainable AI: A Study on User Perceptions

Nicolas Henchoz, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Thanh Trung Phan, Andreas Sonderegger

Nowadays, search engines, social media or news aggregators are the preferred services for news access. Aggregation is mostly based on artificial intelligence technologies raising a new challenge: Trust has been ranked as the most important factor for media ...

Springer2021

Ming Shan Digital Experience

Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Cédric Duchene, Andreas Sonderegger, Emily Clare Groves, Margaux Charvolin

The Ming Shan Digital Experience is an immersive installation designed to support meditation in the context of a new Taoist center. Its creation confronted current academic literature on digital technology for meditation with the practical and cultural req ...

2021

Pictorial Scales in Research and Practice A Review

Andreas Sonderegger

The present article is concerned with the theoretical foundations and practical aspects of developing pictorial scales. It aims to assess the potential of pictorial scales compared to verbal scales. The article provides a review of existing pictorial scale ...

HOGREFE PUBLISHING CORP2021

Microsaccades Distinguish Looking From Seeing

Andreas Sonderegger, Andrea Regula Schneider

Understanding our visual world requires both looking and seeing. Dissociation of these processes can result in the phenomenon of inattentional blindness or 'looking without seeing'. Concomitant errors in applied settings can be serious, and even deadly. Cu ...

INT GROUP EYE MOVEMENT RESEARCH2019

The UX Construct – Does the Usage Context Influence the Outcome of User Experience Evaluations?

Andreas Sonderegger

How are different measures of user experience (UX) related to each other? And does it differ if a technological device is used for work or leisure with regard to UX? In the present study, the influence of context factors (i.e. usage domain) on the outcomes ...

Springer2019

Food Talks: visual and interaction principles for representing environmental and nutritional food information in augmented reality

Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Andreas Sonderegger, Emily Clare Groves

This user-centered design research project aimed to investigate visual and interaction principles for augmented reality (AR) in the context of environmental and nutritional food labelling. Nutritional information on existing food labels is often misunderst ...

2019

Pictorial System Usability Scale (P-SUS): Developing an Instrument for Measuring Perceived Usability

Andreas Sonderegger

We have developed a pictorial multi-item scale, called P-SUS (Pictorial System Usability Scale), which aims to measure the perceived usability of mobile devices. The scale is based on the established verbal usability questionnaire SUS (System Usability Sca ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Neurofeedback training with a low-priced EEG device leads to faster alpha enhancement but shows no effect on cognitive performance: A single-blind, sham-feedback study

Andreas Sonderegger, João Pedro de Matos Rodrigues

Introduction Findings of recent studies indicate that it is possible to enhance cognitive capacities of healthy individuals by means of individual upper alpha neurofeedback training (NFT). Although these results are promising, most of this research was con ...

2019

AniSAM & AniAvatar – Animated Visualizations of Affective States

Andreas Sonderegger

Tools that provide visual feedback about emotions to the user in the form of an avatar or an emoticon have become increasingly important. While a great deal of effort has already been put into the reliable and accurate automatic detection of emotions, only ...

ACM2016