Our Company
Helping people practice attention since 2013.
Narbis builds wearable biofeedback and neurofeedback tools that turn invisible physiology into feedback you can see, so focus and calm become skills you can practice.
The story
Where Narbis comes from.
Before Narbis, Domenic and Devon Greco developed attention-training products through CyberLearning Technologies using aspects of a NASA Langley neurofeedback system. Narbis was founded in 2013 to continue that work and bring real-time feedback into everyday activities.
Narbis develops at-home biofeedback and neurofeedback tools designed to help people practice attention and self-regulation while reading, studying, working, training, or creating.
The parent company, Domenic Greco Ventures, Corp., was named after Narbis founder Devon Greco's father, Dr. Domenic Greco, a clinical psychologist with decades of biofeedback and neurofeedback experience. After an ALS diagnosis in 2009, Domenic continued working with Devon on more practical home-training systems. Narbis was conceived before Domenic's death in 2013, and his work remains an inspiration for the company.
Narbis and NASA
From pilot training to your living room.
In the 1990s, a scientist working on pilot training at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, came up with a way to translate brainwave output, measured through neurofeedback, to characterize attention levels.
To support pilot-attention research, NASA Langley researcher Dr. Alan Pope developed what he called an engagement index. The index relates higher-frequency beta activity to alpha and theta activity and produces a metric used to characterize engagement.
His team tested the technique and found that subjects who were shown their engagement level while performing a task were able to learn to control their concentration and outperformed control groups, while reporting a lower perceived workload.
Narbis brought this concept into real-life activities by applying neurofeedback technology to smart glasses that people can wear while reading, studying, working, or practicing. The lenses change tint as attention shifts, providing immediate feedback without pulling the user away from the task.
The Narbis system uses NASA's engagement index and the accompanying algorithms, as well as the dynamic thresholding of the original technology: the way the level of difficulty varies with the user's performance.
Inspiration
Domenic Greco, PhD
Domenic held a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and worked with biofeedback and neurofeedback beginning in 1982. He developed and operated stress-management and ADHD treatment centers and explored ways to make neurofeedback more practical for clinicians and families.
Around 2000, Domenic and Devon Greco licensed aspects of NASA's engagement-index system for commercial attention-training products. Their first related clinical technology became available in 2003, followed by home-based systems in 2005. Narbis later carried the feedback concept into smart glasses.
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