A method provides media guidance to users based on customised control schemes. A brain monitoring device monitors brain activity of a user and sends brain activity data to control circuitry. The control circuitry determines a number of different user input types that are distinguishable based on the brain activity data. A list of available media guidance application operations are retrieved by the control circuitry. A control scheme is determined based on the number of different user input types, wherein the control scheme maps a function to each different user input type such that each of the available media guidance application operations in the list is accessible to the user through the use of one or more mapped functions. The user is alerted of the determined control scheme. For example, if the media guidance application determines that only two different user input types may be based on brain activity, the media guidance application will select a control scheme that only requires two different functions to select any available media guidance application operations.
Methods and systems for selecting customized control schemes based on brain activity