Knowing varieties of writing a letter in a word or a subword in different handwriting styles is very beneficial in recognition specifically for online recognition. In this paper, TMU-OFS dataset consisting of 1000 frequent Farsi subwords is employed to study Farsi handwriting styles. The subwords are grouped based on their delayed strokes and their main bodies, separately. The handwriting style...

Problem statement: The study on twins is an important form of study in the forensic and biometrics field as twins share similar genetic traits. Handwriting is one of the common types of forensic evidence. Differentiating the similarities of writing of a pair of twins is critical in establishing the reliability of handwriting identification. Writing style can be used as biometric features in aut...

BACKGROUND Handwriting in Parkinson's disease (PD) features specific abnormalities which are difficult to assess in clinical practice since no specific tool for evaluation of spontaneous movement is currently available. OBJECTIVE This study aims to validate the 'Systematic Screening of Handwriting Difficulties' (SOS-test) in patients with PD. METHODS Handwriting performance of 87 patients a...

Problem statement: Handwriting movement is one of the most complex activities of human motions. It’s a blend of kinesthetic, cognitive, perceptual and motor components. The study of this biological process shows that a bell-shaped velocity profiles are generally observed in the handwriting motion. We, therefore, assume that the handwriting speed has an important role in control and generation o...

Writing is a means of communication which requires complex motor, perceptual, and cognitive skills. If one of these abilities gets lost following traumatic events or due to neurological diseases, handwriting could deteriorate. Occupational therapy practitioners provide rehabilitation services for people with impaired handwriting. However, to determine the effectiveness of handwriting interventi...

In this paper we present a new method to extract the elementary perceptual codes from on-line handwriting scripts. This approach uses the advantages of fuzzy sets theory to classify the on-line handwriting strokes into elementary perceptual codes and the Betaelliptic model for the generation of complex handwriting movements. Human perceptual system is based on some basic features in order to re...

Although handwriting is a daily life activity commonly attributed to the left hemisphere in the majority of right-handers, it is also known to require attentional and spatial mechanisms that rely on right hemispheric processing. The underlying spatial organization of handwriting in patients with right brain damage remains unresolved. Here we show in a patient with circumscribed right superior p...

A writer-dependent technique is proposed for automatically correcting written spelling errors in on-line cursive handwriting. In a training process, handwriting samples of the user are collected and segmented into characters by using a writer-independent segmentation algorithm. Shape models are built on these samples to capture the user’s writing style for each character. In the application pro...

The authors investigate the illusory correlation phenomenon as a possible contributor to the persistence of graphology's use to predict personality. Participants unfamiliar with graphology inspected handwriting samples paired with fabricated personality profiles. In Experiment 1, handwriting samples and personality profiles were randomly paired. In Experiment 2, discernible correlations near un...

A sample of 125 children from grades 4 and 5 of two normal Dutch primary schools were investigated regarding the incidence of handwriting problems and other fine motor disabilities. Handwriting quality was assessed with the concise assessment method for children's handwriting (BHK) and the school questionnaire for teachers (SQT). Two groups of 12 children each were formed, one group of good wri...