OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to use computerized temporal measures to examine and compare the writing process of proficient and non-proficient third-grade handwriters. METHOD A computerized digitizer system was used to compare the temporal handwriting measures of two groups of 8-9-year-old students. Classroom teachers used a questionnaire to identify 50 students who were non-profic...

Poor handwriting has been shown to be associated with developmental disorders such as Developmental Coordination Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, autism, and learning disorders. Handwriting difficulties could lead to academic underachievement and poor self-esteem. Therapeutic intervention has been shown to be effective in treating children with poor handwriting, making early ...

OBJECTIVE Children with ADHD often present with handwriting difficulties. However, the extent to which motor and attention skills influence performance in this group has not yet been explored. The objective of this study was to examine the factors associated with change in handwriting performance. METHOD This study examines the factors associated with change in handwriting performance of 49 c...

This research project was aimed to develop an intelligent Bengali handwriting education system to improve the literacy level in Bangladesh. Due to the socio-economical limitation, all of the population does not have the chance to go to school. Here, we developed a prototype of web-based (iPhone/smartphone or computer browser) intelligent handwriting education system for autonomous learning of B...

Handwriting is fundamental in school and everyday life situations. Legibility guarantees that writing productions communicate information, and speed is often crucial, especially in children with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), in order to increase the likelihood of their being able to work efficiently and stay on-task during school activities. Preliminary reports have shown...

This letter proposes the use of ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) for handwriting by imaging sound velocity changes in a medium caused rod. The rod was used as writing object, and tomographic instrument able to process data over time with temporal frequency 4 frames per second. Tests are carried out various words letters using USCT automatic software. work shows functional capability offere...

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...

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...

This paper presents a statistical approach for rule-base generation of handwriting recognition. The new proposed method integrates the heuristic feature selection with the statistical evaluation and thus improves the generation speed and the performance of the fuzzy rule-based handwriting recognition system. Fuzzy statistical measures are employed to identify relevant features from a given larg...

Building on past results establishing a benefit for using handwriting when entering mathematics on the computer, we hypothesize that handwriting as an input modality may be able to provide significant advantages over typing in the mathematics learning domain. The use of handwriting may result in decreased extraneous cognitive load on students, and it may provide better support for the two-dimen...