Pencil Grasp Pattern: How Critical is it to Functional Handwriting? Heidi D. Schwellnus Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science University of Toronto 2012 This thesis reports the results of a large study to evaluate the kinetics of pencil grasp patterns in terms of speed and legibility of handwriting of children in Grade 4. Current clinical practice as recent as 2008 ...

The purpose of this study was to quantify real-world highway sign reading behavior while driving at night. Sign reading behavior was assessed using traditional self-report augmented by an in-vehicle eye tracking system. Good agreement was found between eye movement data (last-look distance) and verbal report measures of sign legibility distance (r = 0.9). Significant reductions in legibility di...

Introduction Plenty of information about health is available on the Internet; however, quality and legibility are not always evaluated. Knowledge regarding orofacial functions can be considered important for the population because it allows proper stimulus, early diagnosis, and prevention of the oral myofunctional alterations during early infancy. Objective The aim was evaluate the quality, leg...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether doctors have worse handwriting than other health professionals. DESIGN Comparison of handwriting samples collected prospectively in a standardised 10 seconds' task. SETTING Courses on quality improvement. SUBJECTS 209 health care professionals attending the courses, including 82 doctors. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Legibility rated on a four-point scale by four...

Nowadays, mobile phones are very popular in the world. The use of text email with short message service (SMS) is spreading. In this study, we evaluated the legibility of characters on the liquid crystal displays of mobile phones. When characters are small, younger people assure readability by shortening the viewing distance. However, elderly people find it far more difficult to see small charac...

The process by which humans distinguish visually between letters of the alphabet is a matter of considerable theoretical and practical interest. On the theoretical side, it is a classical problem in psychology, and has served as a test case for numerous theories of feature analysis and pattern recognition. On the practical side, it is relevant to the effective design of any textual display. Fur...

This study examined the legibility of information presented on head-up displays (HUDs) for automotive application as a function of background scene complexity, the position of the HUD within field of view relative to the background scene, and the perceptual capacity of the perceiver. Groups of field-dependent and field-independent subjects viewed video footage from the perspective of following ...