TY - GEN
T1 - An assessment tool for judging the overall appearance of Chinese handwriting based on opinions from occupational therapists
AU - Li, Ka Ki
AU - Leung, Howard
AU - Lam, Sutie
AU - Tsang, Wai Ping Cecilia
PY - 2008/4/7
Y1 - 2008/4/7
N2 - Children's handwriting performance is a part of concern by parents, teachers and researchers, because learning to write is a major and critical task for children. An assessment tool capable of evaluating students' handwriting automatically can help teachers to provide feedback to students and to find out more objectively the specific problems identified. In this paper, we propose an assessment tool for judging the overall appearance of the student's Chinese handwriting by finding different geometric transformed parameters of a Chinese character with respect to a template character. By cross-validation with a team of occupational therapists who are more experienced in assessment of handwriting performance, it is hoped that a more reliable handwriting evaluation is received. The proposed tool has been integrated into a web-based system for assisting children to write correctly and precisely.
AB - Children's handwriting performance is a part of concern by parents, teachers and researchers, because learning to write is a major and critical task for children. An assessment tool capable of evaluating students' handwriting automatically can help teachers to provide feedback to students and to find out more objectively the specific problems identified. In this paper, we propose an assessment tool for judging the overall appearance of the student's Chinese handwriting by finding different geometric transformed parameters of a Chinese character with respect to a template character. By cross-validation with a team of occupational therapists who are more experienced in assessment of handwriting performance, it is hoped that a more reliable handwriting evaluation is received. The proposed tool has been integrated into a web-based system for assisting children to write correctly and precisely.
KW - Chinese handwriting education
KW - Handwriting analysis
KW - Handwriting difficulty
KW - Pattern recognition
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=41549156434&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-78139-4_26
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-78139-4_26
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
SN - 3540781382
SN - 9783540781387
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 288
EP - 299
BT - Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2007 - 6th International Conference, Revised Papers
T2 - 6th International Conference on Advances in Web Based Learning, ICWL 2007
Y2 - 15 August 2007 through 17 August 2007
ER -