Brainstorm workshop survey: Geneva 2015

Selected comments from attendees

• "Very well organized and useful"

• "Very clear and useful lectures"

• "Thanks a lot! Very nice workshop!"

• "Very clear: written tutorial is perfect"

• "This software is user-friendly and very nicely designed: congrats!"

• "The online tutorials were really my first introduction to EEG and I found it essential for understanding the course. The workshop is not necessarily for beginners but I am very glad I came as I learnt a lot!"

Survey results

Number of participants: 30
Number of returned documents: 22 (73%)
Link to the pdf document.

Summary

1. Before today's class, how would you describe your use of Brainstorm:
   • Never used: 55%
   • Some simulation work: 22%
   • Some experimental work: 22%
   • Experienced user: 0%
2. How helpful was the class in learning Brainstorm: 1(worst) to 5(best)
   • 1: 0%
   • 2: 0%
   • 3: 5%

   • 4: 45%

   • 5: 55%

3. Did you try the online tutorial before coming to class:
   • Yes: 36%
   • No: 64%
4. Interested in using Brainstorm for:
   • EEG: 86%
   • MEG: 18%
   • MEG+EEG: 9%
   • NIRS: 5%
   • sEEG/ECoG: 18%
   • Scripting: 32%
   • Pre-processing: 36%
   • Visualization of recordings: 59%
   • Source analysis: 73%
   • Time-frequency: 77%
   • Functional connectivity: 64%
   • Statistics: 45%
   • Research: 36%
   • Clinical applications: 27%
   • Epilepsy: 18%
   • Baby / infant studies: 18%

Comments and suggestions

The number indicates the number of participants who made similar comments.

Comments about the workshop

• Good clarity: 12

• Good pace: 11

• More time on personal data: 3
• Too much information: 2
• Practice too fast: 2
• Practice too slow: 1
• Lectures too slow: 1
• Need more time / three days: 1
• Lecture on source modeling earlier in the day: 1

Missing topics and requests

• Statistics: 8

• More connectivity: 2
• More scripting: 1
• More phase-amplitude coupling: 1
• Steady state evoked potentials: 1
• Resting state: 1
• Bad channel interpolation: 1
• Diagram representation of the processing pipeline: 1

Missing tools in Brainstorm

• Advanced ERP analysis: 1
• Tutorial on dipole fitting: 1
• Easier way to batch: 1
• ERP segmentation: 1
• More statistics: 1
• Support for Nicolet ".e" EEG format: 1

Notes for future workshops

• The statistical analysis was completely overlooked. It didn't have a clear time slot in the program because the EEG/epilepsy dataset was not adapted to illustrate it, then it got skipped because we were running out of time. We need to make sure we introduce the stat features and the thresholding interface even with this dataset.