OBJECTIVE To assess the utility of handwriting rehabilitation (HR) in Parkinson disease (PD) patients who experienced difficulties with handwriting and signing. METHODS Sixty PD patients were prospectively studied with graphological evaluations. Thirty PD patients were assigned to HR for 9 weeks. At the end of this training, all patients were evaluated again and results of basal vs. final eva...

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...

Domestic normative documents, in particular the National Standard of Russian Federation on Information Protection, outlines three levels confidence results identification, based some degree authenticity subject access, but not containing specific values. The article proposes approaches to qualitative assessment informativeness user identification parameters by keyboard handwriting basis behavio...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the benefits of a summer handwriting instruction course offered to community elementary-age students. METHODS Twenty-six students participated in the study and attended instruction for 1 hour per day for 2 weeks. Pre- and posttesting with the Evaluation Tool of Children's Handwriting (ETCH) were conducted. Parents were also asked to rate thei...

This paper presents the results of the Handwriting Segmentation Contest that was organized in the context of ICDAR2007. The aim of this contest was to use well established evaluation practices and procedures in order to record recent advances in offline handwriting segmentation. Two benchmarking datasets (one for text line and one for word segmentation) were used in a common evaluation platform...

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...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this research was to study how the speed and legibility of fourth-graders handwriting was affected by type of pencil grip on the Evaluation Tool of Children's Handwriting-Cursive. METHOD Ninety-five typically developing students and 6 students receiving special education services completed the Evaluation Tool of Children's Handwriting-Cursive (ETCH-C). Photographs wer...

AbstractMany important tasks such as forensic signature verification, calligraphy synthesis, etc., rely on handwriting trajectory recovery of which, however, even an appropriate evaluation metric is still missing. Indeed, existing metrics only focus the writing orders but overlook fidelity glyphs. Taking both facets into account, we come up with two new metrics, adaptive intersection union (AIo...

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...

PREFACE Handwriting is considered as a representative of human behavior and characteristics since centuries. With the evolution of modern computing technologies, researchers have moved towards the automated analysis of handwriting. The shift towards automated analysis of handwriting has even fortified by the interest various industries have in this field. One of the most important applications ...