Changes in Pen Pressure, Letter Size, and Writing Speed According to Visual Cues in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

Purpose: Writing performance can be improved in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) by providing the visual cues. This study aimed to investigate changes pen pressure, letter size, and writing speed as per levels of cues.Methods: Sixty-three participants (38 PD 25 normal adults) performed tasks, including sentence along cue using a tablet personal computer, digital pen, software that could measure stroke length, duration.Results: First, group’s pressure size were when was provided. Second, effect cues shown more ‘writing within square blanks’ than ‘copying’ between parallel lines’. Especially, there no significant differences groups terms blanks’.Conclusion: Despite movement disorders patients, our findings suggest are provided Our results indicate hierarchically objectively confirms performance.