There are several other methods for entering text at a computer, these include gaze typing and spoken input and, with the advent of the PDA and, more recently, the tablet PC, users can use handwritten text that is created with a stylus or pen. This handwritten text can be close to the users ‘natural’ handwriting, for example, cursive writing, or can require the user to construct letters in a co...

The study aimed to compare the kinetics of two novel combination drug products for Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder (FSIAD). Thirteen women received testosterone via the sublingual route followed 2.5 hours later by a buspirone tablet, versus a single combination tablet swallowed at once. The first clinical prototype consisted of a sublingual solution containing testosterone (0.5 mg) comp...

Writing is a means of communication which requires complex motor, perceptual, and cognitive skills. If one of these abilities gets lost following traumatic events or due to neurological diseases, handwriting could deteriorate. Occupational therapy practitioners provide rehabilitation services for people with impaired handwriting. However, to determine the effectiveness of handwriting interventi...

Can mathematical competence be measured by analyzing the patterns of pauses between written elements in the freehand copying of mathematical equations? Twenty participants of varying levels of mathematical competence copied sets of equations and sequences of numbers on a graphics tablet. The third quartile of pauses is an effective measure, because it reflects the greater number of chunks and t...

In this paper a use of haptic and visual training for Chinese handwriting learning is investigated. Participants learned a given character under three training conditions (haptic, visual, haptic-visual) and were required to write the given character plus two characters with common stokes on a tablet before and after training for improvement comparison. Performance was measured in terms of mean ...

This article discusses the problem of user identification and psychophysiological state assessment while writing a signature using a graphics tablet. The solution of the problem includes the creation of templates containing handwriting signature features simultaneously with the hidden registration of physiological parameters of a person being tested. Heart rate variability description in the di...

Can online argument diagramming help students learn written argumentation skills? Students at Moi University Law School in Erldoret, Kenya, received free tablet computers through the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Researchers at the Learning Research and Development Center created a learning module to teach legal argumentation skills to over 400 Moi students in three sections of a law ...

One of the most promising methods of interacting with small portable computing devices, such as personal digital assistants, is the use of handwriting. In order to make this communication method more natural, we proposed to visually observe the writing process on ordinary paper and to automatically recover the pen trajectory from numerical tablet sequences. On the basis of this work we develope...

This paper describes the process by which a group of seven and eight year old children designed their own digital writing tools following their own study of digital pens, personal digital assistants and tablet PCs. Some of the children’s thoughts about the three technologies are presented and how these were carried through into their own designs is explored. It was found that although the child...

The paper describes a research study to determine the usability of handwriting recognition technology on a tablet PC for free writing by children. Results demonstrate that recognition error rates vary according to the metrics used, and the authors discuss how some of the errors are created concluding that the error rates say very little about what was happening at the interface and that with re...