AUTOMATED SYNTAX ANALYSES OF DRAWING TWO TANGENT PATTERNS IN CHILDREN WITH LOW AND AVERAGE HANDWRITING ABILITY (.)

Narges Tabatabaey-Mashadi; Rubita Sudirman; Puspa Inayat Khalid; Chris Lange-Küttner

doi:10.2466/24.10.PMS.120v15x1

AUTOMATED SYNTAX ANALYSES OF DRAWING TWO TANGENT PATTERNS IN CHILDREN WITH LOW AND AVERAGE HANDWRITING ABILITY (.)

Percept Mot Skills. 2015 Jun;120(3):865-94. doi: 10.2466/24.10.PMS.120v15x1. Epub 2015 Jun 1.

Authors

Narges Tabatabaey-Mashadi¹, Rubita Sudirman¹, Puspa Inayat Khalid¹, Chris Lange-Küttner²

Affiliations

¹ 1 Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).
² 2 Faculty of Life Sciences and Computing, School of Psychology, London Metropolitan University.

PMID: 26029964
DOI: 10.2466/24.10.PMS.120v15x1

Abstract

Sequential strategies of digitized tablet drawings by 6-7-yr.-old children (N = 203) of average and below-average handwriting ability were analyzed. A Beery Visual Motor Integration (BVMI) and a Bender-Gestalt (BG) pattern, each composed of two tangential shapes, were predefined into area sectors for automatic analysis and adaptive mapping of the drawings. Girls more often began on the left side and used more strokes than boys. The below-average handwriting group showed more directional diversity and idiosyncratic strategies.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algorithms*
Child
Female
Handwriting*
Humans
Male
Motor Skills / physiology*
Pattern Recognition, Automated / methods*