[Purpose] This study was designed to identify factors influencing handwriting articulation based on the international classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF) and to recommend effective evaluation and intervention strategies to improve the handwriting of children with cerebral palsy. [Subjects] The subjects were 96 elementary school children with cerebral palsy and the study w...

We investigated a visual-perceptual and haptic-perceptual training program to enhance motor skills and Chinese handwriting performance among children with handwriting difficulties. The participants were 28 first- and second-grade children with handwriting difficulties. They were matched according to age and then randomly assigned into a control group or an experimental group. Participants in th...

In this paper, we present PerTOHS theory for on-line handwriting segmentation, based on the fact that in order to identify patterns, our human perceptual system is based on basic features called perceptual codes. Analysing handwriting, we notice the existence of elementary and global ones. Perceptual organization of elementary perceptual codes in various constraints generates global ones, and t...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the relationships between specific performance components, eye-hand coordination, visuomotor integration, in-hand manipulation, and handwriting skill. METHOD A sample of 48 typical first grade students were identified as good and poor handwriters by their teachers. Each child completed the Motor Accuracy Test; the Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integratio...

We investigate the detection of handwriting forged by novices. To facilitate document examination it is important to develop an automated system to identify forgeries, or at least to identify those handwritings that are likely to be forged. Because forgers often carefully copy or trace genuine handwriting, we hypothesize that good forgeries – those that retain the shape and size of genuine writ...

We determined whether a widely used assessment of visual-motor skills, the Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI), is appropriate for use as an outcome measure for handwriting interventions. A two-group pretest-posttest design was used with 207 kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade students. Two well-established handwriting measures and the VMI were administe...

This is an overview of the most recent published approaches to solving the handwriting recognition problem. This paper is aimed at clarifying the role of handwriting recognition in accordance with today's maturing technologies. It tries to list and clarify the components that build handwriting recognition and related technologies such as OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and Signature Veriica...

Continuous handwriting input using the finger on small devices such as PDAs and mobile phones is difficult if not impossible. Also, handwriting input has always required significant attention from the user during the process of writing. In our previous work, we proposed the concept of ‘eyes-free writing’, a novel solution that addresses both the problems. In this paper, we describe the challeng...

We build a distance education application of a Chinese handwriting education system that allows students to do practice at anytime and anywhere. As an intelligent tutor, the system can automatically check the handwriting errors, such as the stroke production errors, stroke sequence error and stroke relationship error. Then our system should provide useful feedback to the student. In this paper,...

This paper proposes a learning-based approach to synthesize cursive handwriting of the user’s personal handwriting style, by combining shape models and physical models together. In the training process, some sample paragraphs written by the user are collected and these cursive handwriting samples are segmented into individual characters by using a two-level writer-independent segmentation algor...