Developers & producers of the compact EEG
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Innovative EEG brainwave monitors for
- Sports performance, psychology & coaching
- Neuro feedback, hypnotherapy & cognitive therapies
- Neuroscience research
- EEG-based games for neuro feedback therapy, training and entertainment
PDF download of our brochure on therapy use PDF download of our brochure on sports use Some useful links outside our website
Alpha-Active News
Paid internship at Alpha-Active Ltd for current or recent student of Nottingham Trent University to work on applications of signal processing of EEG brain wave measurements in sport. Excellent opportunity to become involved in this exciting area of neuroscience. Please enquire to Alpha-Active via by email or phone in the first instance. Closing date for applications: 31st Ocotber 2015.
July 2015 News: SETT review the enPathia and enCore assistive technology systems
These assistive technology products were evaluated by people with a disability working on the Services for Enabling Technology (SETT) project. The project is a partnership between National Star and Beaumont specialist colleges, funded by JISC , working with developers of assistive technologies to review products, providing feedback to companies and potential users.
The test reports are provided 'as received' without editing by the manufacturer (Eneso) or the supplier and project participant (Alpha-Active Ltd).
Please visit the SETT project web site at: www.producttesting.org.uk, where videos may be seen.
National Star College and Beaumont College are Ofsted Grade 1 specialist colleges providing Further Education, supported living and services for people with disabilities and training for professionals. They support people to maximise opportunities for living, occupation and employment and have expertise with assistive technologies for IT Access, communication and independent living.
To see the full report on both enPathia and enCore, click here. 
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June 2015 News: Eneso and Alpha-Active presented a collaborative paper titled "Technology Assistance for Computer Access, Work, Communication and Entertainment" (available by clicking here - Opens in new window - Please allow a few moments.) at the CEA Bioengineering Symposium in Malaga on 26th June 2015.
The article is published in the journal Cognitive Area Networks (Cogan), available online.
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Eneso y Alpha-Active presentaron el artículo titulado "Tecnologías Asistenciales para Acceso al Ordenador, Trabajo, Comunicación y Ocio" (disponible aquí. - Nueva ventana - Por favor, espere unos instantes) en el 70 Simposio CEA de Bioingeniería: Interfaces Cerebro-Computadora (BCI) y Tecnologías Asistenciales celebrado en Málaga los días 25 y 26 de Junio de 2015: enlace al sitio web del simposio.
El artículo está publicado en la revista Cognitive Area Networks (COGAN). Disponible online.
May 2012 news items: Alpha-Active EEG conferences and exhibitions:
Alpha-Active will be exhibiting their compact sports EEG brain monitoring system at the following conferences, teaming up and sharing a stand with Stephen Oliver Associates, the UK representative for the American ASL Eyetracker system.
Alpha-Active and S Oliver Associates will be presenting the latest in their product lines of compact mobile EEG brain and eye movement monitoring technology developed with sports science applications in mind.
The combination of tracking the visual focus and mental focus of a person simultaneously will open up new levels of insights into psychology of performance in a wide range of sport and for market research on what customers focus on, psychology, training, etc.
ITEC 2012: 22nd - 24th May to be held at ExCel, London.
With over 3000 attendees and 48 countries represented this event brings together the worlds military training and simulation community to showcase innovative approaches to the market.
See ITEC 2012 for conference details.
ICSEMIS 2012: 19th - 24th July at the SECC, Glasgow.
Alpha-Active will be presenting a paper at this pre-Olympic event attended by the world's leading sport and exercise scientists.
See ICSEMIS for more information.
WCPAS9 The World Congress of Performance Analysis of Sport IX 25th - 28th July to be held at the University of Worcester, England.
Alpha-Active will be exhibiting their compact mobile EEG brain monitoring technology at this event together with S Oliver Associates eye-tracking systems. This event coincides with the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics.
See WCPAS9 for further information.
February 2012: EEG and eye-tracking for Performance Analysis and Coaching in Football
You can see our EEG mind coaching technology and the ASL wireless eye trackers at the UK Football Academy training event at Molineux on 12th March.
This is being organised by Damian Roden.
For further information: UK Football Academy.
Please join us at Molineux.
Physics summer placement bursaries
From summer 2012, the IOP (UK Institute of Physics) will be offering penultimate year undergraduate physics students, in the UK and Ireland, a bursary to carry out eight week summer placements in a company of their choice.
If any students would like to work with Alpha-Active Ltd on their sports science EEG or assistive technology, please contact Alpha-Active:
Alpha-Active Ltd
2 Devonshire Court, Heathpark
Honiton, Devon,
EX14 1SB, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1404 42455
Fax: +44 (0)1404 41455
E-mail: Enquiries@alpha-active.com
Further information on the scheme is at:
The organisers have postponed this event until further notice
January 2012: Alpha-Active will be exhibiting at UKFA's football coaching symposium, with Guus Hiddink and Sam Allardyce, on 8th February at the Emirates Stadium.
Guus Hiddink, one of the world's best football managers and Raymond Verheijen, Hiddink's assistant at South Korea, Russia and Chelsea, have launched the UK Football Academy (UKFA), an institute dedicated to coach education through bringing the world's best coaches and professionals to the doorstep of UK football people at all levels of the game.
The UKFA's inaugural symposium, entitled 'Improve Your Team - Meet the World's Best Football Experts', will take place at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday, February 8. The event will be open to managers, coaches and practitioners at every level of the game, where Hiddink and Verheijen will be joined as keynote speakers by Sam Allardyce, Damian Roden, and many others.
Alpha-Active will be exhibiting the combination of their latest EEG mind monitoring products and eye tracking technology.
For more information: UK Football Academy and FC Business article
December 2011: Alpha-Active appoints distributor in Spain:
Alpha-Active is delighted to announce the appointment of Eneso as authorised distributor for its HeadCoach compact EEG products in Spain.
Eneso develops and sells assistive technology solutions for people with disabilities.
Eneso is formed by professional experts in the fields of education, rehabilitation and engineering, who give the company the ability to approach projects from an interdisciplinary and multidimensional point of view. Hence we are confident that Eneso will provide a good level of support to Alpha-Active EEG products in Spain.
All enquiries in Spain please contact:
Para clientes de España, por favor contacte con:
info@eneso.es and title your message EEG or call 0902 00 55 61 and ask about Alpha-Active EEG
www.eneso.es
The team at Eneso will be pleased to help you.
See Alpha-Active's EEG on Youtube
Click for Sport application and Selling application to see the EEG in action.
Autumn News update:
Alpha-Active exhibited their compact sports EEG brain monitoring system at the ESPRIT sports science & technology innovation meeting recently : ESPRIT Conference 2011.
There are other ESPRIT events scheduled through the year and membership of ESPRIT is free to academics.
More information is available on the ESPRIT website:
Click ESPRIT objectives, and ESPRIT events, and ESPRIT joining.
June news items: Alpha-Active sports EEG conferences and exhibitions 2011
Alpha-Active will be exhibiting their compact sports EEG brain monitoring system at the following conferences, Teaming up and sharing a stand with Stephen Oliver Associates, the UK representative for the American ASL Eyetracker system.
Alpha-Active and S Oliver Associates will be presenting the latest in their product lines of compact mobile EEG brain and eye movement monitoring technology developed with sports science applications in mind.
The combination of tracking the visual focus and mental focus of a person simultaneously will open up new levels of insights into psychology of performance in a wide range of sport and for market research as to what customers focus on, psychology, etc.
The 16th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science to be held in Liverpool 6th - 9th July 2011: See ECSS congress for more details. The European College of Sport Science (ECSS) is an international non-profit organisation founded to promote science and research, with special attention to the interdisciplinary fields of sport science and sports medicine: See ECSS for general information on the organisation.
ECEM 2011, in Marseille, France, 21st - 25th of August This is the 16th edition of a series of European Conferences on Eye Movements. It is an international, interdisciplinary conference devoted to research on oculomotor control and active vision. It is the place where psychologists, neuropsychologists, neurophysiologists, clinicians, linguists, computer and applied scientists meet to exchange ideas about the strategies, the psychological processes and the neurobiological mechanisms and substrates that drive our eyes in the many perceptual tasks of our everyday life (reading, scene perception, visual search, driving etc.), the interactions between eye movements, perception, attention and cognition, as well as the coordination of eye, head and hand movements. See ECEM 2011 for more information.
The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) Conference 2011, University of Essex, 6th - 8th September 2011: The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) is the professional body for sport and exercise sciences in the UK. Sport and Exercise Science is the application of scientific principles to the promotion, maintenance and enhancement of sport and exercise related behaviours. See BASES conference for Conference information and BASES for general information about BASES.
Please come and visit our stand at any or all of these events - we look forward to meeting you there.
May news item: 2011 International UKIERI Workshop on Fusion of Brain-Computer Interface and Assistive Robotics, 7-8 July 2011, University of Ulster, Derry, UK.
The primary objective of the workshop is to bring together stakeholders in both the brain-computer interface (BCI) and assistive robotics (AR) fields in one location, to discuss cutting edge developments and to enable brainstorming of ideas to provide new directions for the effective fusion of BCI and AR systems, so as to make such systems practical for constant real-world use.
The Alpha-Active EEG software will allow flexible brain-computer applications to be developed that are compact and robust to user movement.
For more information and to submit an abstract please see UKIERI Workshop.
April 2011: Project started - University of Surrey Department of Computing
In collaboration with Alpha-Active Ltd, the University of Surrey has recruited a Research Fellow to take on the exciting opportunity of applying computational intelligence research into the real world. In this project, we propose to apply Surrey's research on data mining in Alpha-Active's product. A proof-of-concept plug-in for the Alpha-Active HeadCoach EEG product will be developed, to classify EEG signals in real-time.
The aim is to give a sports person feedback that is indicative of a figure of merit derived from the EEG data recorded during optimum performance. This may also be used to help patients in managing long term illness.
For more details about the project see Project information.
November 2010: Alpha-Active supplies pocket EEG to iZone at Silverstone
The marketing of the Alpha-Active HeadCoach pocket EEG brain wave monitor for sports performance mind coaching hit a new high with the sale to the prestigious iZone facility at the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit.
iZone is a high tech motorsport simulator system that measures driving performance for coaching: www.izoneperformance.com and http://www.izoneperformance.com/simulator.html.
Besides measuring all the usual racing car driver performance metrics, the iZone simulator measures real-time biofeedback parameters such as brain waves (Alpha-Active EEG), visual focus (ASL Eyetracker), heart rate, etc. This allows the coaches to monitor real-time human performance data and to use it as an advanced teaching tool for drivers.
The combination of tracking the visual focus (Eyetracker) and mental focus (EEG) of a sports person simultaneously should open up new levels of insights into psychology of performance in a wide range of sports and for market research, psychology, etc.
See red cross-hairs in monitor in left of image below.
The owner of iZone, Andy Priaulx, is 3 time World Touring Car Champion.
John Pratt of Andy Priaulx Performance Management, which runs the iZone facility, is himself a former racing driver. He was Andy Priaulx's driver coach for 12 years and believes that not enough emphasis is put into driver coaching in motor sport and even less into mind coaching. He is a great believer in the improvement in performance that can be achieved by mindcoaching and sees the Alpha-Active EEG as a valuable tool in achieving his goals.
His colleague at APPM, Enzo Mucci , is also a successful motor racing driver and peak performance mind coach. It was him who first saw how our EEG biofeedback could be used in the racing simulator.
The Alpha-Active EEG brain wave monitor is being used increasingly in motor-sport and sports car studies, including to measure emotional engagement (excitement) and attention of drivers and passengers in high performance sports cars such as the Aston Martin DB7, seen here.
The EEG work is being extended into research on driver alertness / vigilance in a range of fields such as passenger vehicles, trains, planes, ships, etc.
ESPRIT Conference 8th October 2010 Loughborough University:
Alpha-Active Ltd will be exhibiting their pocket EEG, designed for active brain wave monitoring in sports science at the first Annual Conference of the ESPRIT project held at Ford College near the world class sports training facilities at Loughborough University.
This is a unique opportunity to see the state of the art technologies in sports performance training and meet the experts and stakeholders in the field.
See www.ubimon.doc.ic.ac.uk/esprit/m859.html for details.
September 6th to 8th 2010 BASES Conference:
Alpha-Active Ltd will be exhibiting their pocket EEG designed for active brain wave monitoring in sports science at the 2010 BASES (The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences) Conference in Glasgow 6 - 8 September: See www.bases.org.uk/BASES-Annual-Conference & Glasgow University for more details.
Alpha-Active will be on Stand 10 along with S. Oliver Associates who will be exhibiting the ASL eye tracker range of products.
We look forward to seeing you there.
March 2010: Alpha-Active leading edge EEG brainwave monitor chosen by Carbon Media for their Sky 1 TV programmes 'How To Get What You Want'.
The series is called 'How To Get What You Want' and two of the programmes feature our EEG system being used to monitor peoples brainwaves in various situations.
The first programme on March 1st at 9pm, is called 'Winning', and it shows golf coach Dr. John Pates using his own simple techniques to improve golf performance while the player is monitored by the Alpha-Active EEG.
The second programme on March 29th at 9pm, is called 'Selling' and this shows Dr. Jack Lewis examining the psychology of selling in wine retailing. Members of the public are seen tasting various wines while their brainwaves are being monitored using the Alpha-Active EEG system. Each wine is described before they taste it and their reaction to each wine is measured.
For more information on the programmes click HERE.
and for lots more information on Dr. Jack Lewis click HERE and HERE.
To see the EEG highlights from these programmes on YouTube please click Sport application and Selling application.
1st December 2009: Article by Dr Peter Grainger on Brain-Waves and Altered States of Consciousness appears in Positive Health Online
At his clinic Dr Peter Grainger has been using the Alpha-Active pocket electroencephalogram (EEG), developed in the West of England, which measures brain-waves and has a specially modified method to assess altered states of consciousness in the application of health and sports performance improvement, in conjunction with hypnosis and guided imagery. His work across a range of applications is described in a recent article in Positive Health: www.positivehealth.com/article
6th April 2009: Alpha-Active team present to SciTech Challenges re technology for the 2012 Olympic Games
The demands of staging the 2012 Olympic Games provide a focal point for demand-led collaborative partnerships between the business and academic sector. This led to Alpha-Active making an invited presentation to a showcase event at the BAFTA premises in London on 6th April 2009, partnering with Tony Steffert of specialist neurofeedback organisation, qEEG, and Dr Gordon Hunter of the sound analysis group at Kingston University. The aim is to provide neurofeedback training to people who already have (or the promise of having) the skills, fitness, tactical awareness, dedication etc. to achieve high performance in their chosen field. The role of the Kingston team relates to using the sound recorded simultaneously with the EEG as a time marker when reviewing the EEG recordings.
See Alpha-Active and Staplethorne entries at: www.scitechchallenges.com/Showcase
15th February 2009: Alpha-Active EEG on UK Channel 4 TV programme on Science and Sport - 4Sport: Destination 2012 programme
Rhys and Eggsy from the band Goldie Lookin' Chain continue their study of the science behind sport with the help of sports science experts from the University of Bath. Ryan Coombs, TeamBath performance analyst, demonstrates the Alpha-Active EEG (electroecenograph) monitoring device which detects brain wave patterns.
TV video: channel 4 programme - 4sport-destination-2012 (May take a few moments to open).
More about the EEG & TeamBath:www.teambath.com/2009
Rhys wearing the EEG headset
20th January 2009: Jeremiah Alexander of games development company Ideonic visits Alpha-Active
Alpha-Active are at the early stages of developing EEG-driven games whereby thought processes directly drive games outcomes. Applications could include: early detection of and help for patients with age-related neurological decline; neurofeedback diagnosis and treatment of chronic stress; other therapeutic areas such as AHDD; training measures in high stress applications where focus is required, and so on. They may also be developed just for fun applications.
Ideonic is a 'serious games' development company with whom we are forming a collaboration. We would be pleased to hear from other games and media companies interested in working with us.
Jeremiah Alexander (foreground) of Ideonic playing the early EEG game, with Keith Barfoot of Alpha-Active.
16th May 2008: Alpha-Active wins grant from Technology Strategy Board to develop feasibility of EEG driven games technology
Alpha-Active's successful proposal was to carry out a feasibility study of its CE-marked EEG device to convert the mental process of concentration into a tangible feedback signal that can be used to control a game, an instrument or a process. Applications range from 'serious games' for therapeutic and training applications through to those just for fun. The project successfully demonstrated an early concept EEG-driven game.
Alpha-Active gratefully acknowledges the importance of the support from the Creative Industries application area of the TSB: See www.innovateuk.org
1st April 2008: Alpha-Active EEG driven games technology chosen by Futurelab Ideas Incubator panel for exploring applications in education.
Alpha-Active's successful proposal was to develop a specific educational version of our EEG device in order to convert the mental process of concentration into a tangible feedback signal that can be used to control a game, an instrument or a process, as an aid to a positive learning experience. See www.futurelab.org.uk/projects
This project lead to several outcomes including a paper by Mary Ulicsak of Futurelab on 1st April 2009 entitled 'Neurofeedback: is there a potential for use in education?' A key stimulus for this paper was Alpha-Active Ltd's EEG project proposal. Read the paper HERE
Also see the EEG article by Futurelab on 1st January 2009, Brainbox: neuroscience and learning - HERE
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