In learner corpora, as in any corpus, mark-up is an important issue. One aspect of learner corpora so far largely ignored, however, is the specific question of handwriting and in particular how to mark-up handwriting anomalies, especially with learners whose native language uses a different writing system. In this paper we pose some open questions about what aspects of a learner’s handwriting m...

OBJECTIVE We examined whether the three subtests of the Beery Buktenica developmental test of visuomotor integration predicted quality of handwriting across and within groups of boys and girls classified as proficient, at risk or non-proficient writers according to the Concise Assessment Scale for Children's Handwriting. METHOD The Beery Buktenica developmental test of visuomotor integration ...

We are interested in achieving the best possible recognition rates for hand-written mathematics. This problem has challenges that go beyond the usual natural language handwriting recognition: multiple alphabets are used, the number of single-stroke and few-stroke symbols numbers in the hundreds, writers form symbols from some of the alphabets in idiosyncratic non-standard manners, layout is two...

In this article, methods for user recognition by online handwriting are experimentally analyzed using a combination of demographic data of users in relation to their handwriting habits. Online handwriting as a biometric method is characterized by having high variations of characteristics that influences the reliance and security of this method. These variations have not been researched in detai...

Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) often experience difficulties in handwriting. The current study examined the relationships between three motor assessments and the spatial and temporal consistency of handwriting. Twelve children with probable DCD and 29 children from 7 to 12 years who were typically developing wrote the lowercase letters "e" and "l" in cursive and printed...

This article introduces our Web-based handwriting education system developed with 3D computer graphics and pen computing technologies. Traditionally, in teaching handwriting, the teacher writes a character on the blackboard, and then students try to follow the teacher in order to write the same character. The teacher can check whether a student’s handwriting is spatially correct by looking at i...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of different ergonomic desk designs and pencil grip patterns on handwriting performance in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy and healthy children. METHODS Twenty-six children with left hemiplegic cerebral palsy and 32 typically developing children were included. The Minnesota Handwriting Assessment was used to evaluate handwr...

In this paper, we will propose a simple yet robust structural approach for recognizing on-line handwriting. Our approach is designed to achieve reasonable speed, fairly high accuracy and suucient tolerance to variations. At the same time, it maintains a high degree of reusability and hence facilitates extensibility. Experimental results show that the recognition rates are 98.60% for digits, 98....

An understanding of the human motor system, though interesting as a facet of intelligence, would also have application for computer controlled manipulat ion. To enhance this understanding, handwriting is appropriate for study because of its commonality, its susceptibil i ty to measurement, and the possibility of its simulation with a manipulator. A theory of handwriting has been developed and i...