Brainstorm workshop survey: Taipei 2014

Selected comments from attendees:

• "I've never used Brainstorm before the workshop, however the explanation and demonstration are easy to follow! Thanks!"

• "This lecture was very helpful and the speaker has made operations clear."

• "Very clear description step by step."

• "Excellent course."

• "Friendly UI design."

Survey results

Number of participants: 65
Number of returned documents: 48 (74%)
Link to the pdf document.

Summary

1. Before today's class, how would you describe your use of Brainstorm:

   • Never used: 77%

   • Some simulation work: 2%
   • Some experimental work: 19%
   • Experienced user: 2%
2. How helpful was the class in learning Brainstorm: 1(worst) to 5(best)
   • 1: 0%
   • 2: 2%
   • 3: 10%

   • 4: 46%

   • 5: 42%

3. Did you try the online tutorial before coming to class:
   • Yes: 17%
   • No: 46%
   • N/A: 38%
4. Interested in using Brainstorm for:

   • EEG: 85%

   • MEG: 74%

   • MEG+EEG: 40%

   • NIRS: 9%
   • sEEG/ECoG: 0%
   • Scripting: 9%

   • Pre-processing: 57%

   • Visualization of recordings: 36%

   • Source analysis: 70%

   • Time-frequency: 60%

   • Functional connectivity: 64%

   • Statistics: 53%

   • Research: 49%

   • Clinical applications: 13%
   • Epilepsy: 2%
   • Baby / infant studies: 6%

Comments and suggestions

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

Comments about the workshop

• Good pace and clarity: 21

• Too fast in the afternoon: 4

• To slow in the morning: 1
• Too dense, too much information: 1
• Request for having printouts: 2
• More explicit hardware specifications should be given: 1

Missing topics and requests

• More on forward/inverse modeling: 1
• Realistic head models: 1
• More theory for each step: 1
• Group analysis and statistics: 1
• EEG/ERP analysis: 2
• Clinical case: 1
• Resting state MEG: 1
• How to open other file formats: 1
• Comparison with other similar programs: 1
• Export to SPM: 1

Missing tools in Brainstorm

• More statistics (ANOVA...): 3

• Equivalent current dipoles: 2
• Dynamic causal modeling: 1
• Development of the functional connectivity:1
• How to integrate fMRI to guide source analysis: 2

• Exchange with FieldTrip and EEGLAB: 1

• Support for NeuroSky chip data: 1

• NIRS support: 1
• Graph theory analysis: 1

Technical issues

• Computer too slow / out of memory / crashes: 3
• More explicit hardware specifications should be given: 1

Results analysis

Results encoding

1. 1=Never used, 2=Some simulation work, 3=Some experimental work, 4=Experienced user, 0=NA
2. How helpful: 1(worst) to 5(best), 0=N/A
3. Online tutorials before coming: 1=No, 2=Yes, 0=N/A

Results values

1. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 3 1 3 3 1 1 3 1 1 4 1 1 3 1 3 3 3 1 3 1 1 1 1
2. 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 5 3 5 5 4 5 2 3 4 4 4 4 5 4 5 4 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 4 4 3 5 5 5 4 5 4 5 5 5 4 5 4 3 4 4
3. 0 1 2 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 2