IGS2017.pdf (41 MB) 18th IGS conference: June 18-21, 2017, Gaeta, Italy

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Claudio De Stefano and Angelo Marcelli (Eds.). Graphonomics for e-Citizens: e-Health, e-Society, e-Education. Proceedings of IGS 2017. Gaeta, Italy. ISBN 9788864387062 (217 pages, 50 research articles).

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Edited by:
Claudio De Stefano, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale
Angelo Marcelli, Università degli Studi di Salerno
ISBN 9788864387062

18th Biennal Conference of the International Graphonomics Society - IGS 2017

Table of contents


Handwriting Analysis

Reliability of the Handwriting Sign Evaluation
Marie Anne Nauer and Yury Chernov 62

The International Campaign for Cursive Handwriting
Claudio Garibaldi and Heidi Harralson 66

Correlations Between 1° Typeradialhead Fracture and Handwriting
Sabrina Belluco, Milena Pugnaloni and Guido Castellari 70

Measuring Handwriting Stability Versus Context Variations
Ana Rita Matias, Hans-Leo Teulings, Luis Silva and Filipe Melo 75


Handwriting Education 1

Objective Measurement of Handwriting Learning Outcomes at Elementary Schools. Suggests Instruction Improvements
Hans-Leo Teulings and Bouwien Smits-Engelsman 1

Executive Functions, Coordination and Developmental Functional Abilities as Predictors of Writing Capabilities among Adolescents
Liat Hen Herbst and Sara Rosenblum 6

Relationships Between Handwriting Timing, Executive Functions and Daily Functioning Among Adolescents with Neuro-developmental Disabilities
Yael Fogel, Sara Rosenblum and Naomi Josman 11


Handwriting Education 2

IntuiScript a New Digital Notebook for Learning Writing in Elementary Schools: 1st Observations
Nathalie Girard, Damien Simonnet, Eric Anquetil and Mickaël Renault 201

Development of Graphomotor Skills in School-Age Children
Pierluigi D'Antrassi, Margherita Rustia and Agostino Accardo 205

Impact of Handwriting Training on Fluency, Spelling and Text Quality in Primary School Children
Peter Falmann, Sibylle Hurschler Lichtsteiner and Werner Wicki 209

Effects of Physical Education with EDUballs on First-Grade Schoolchildren’s Writing Skills and Handwriting Kinematics
Sara Wawrzyniak, Hans-Leo Teulings, Marcin Korbecki, Ireneusz Cichy and Andrzej Rokita 214


Handwriting and Motor Control

Computer Aided Design of Handwriting Trajectories with the Kinematic Theory of Rapid Human Movements
Daniel Berio, Frederic Fol Leymarie and Réjean Plamondon 114

Do Synthetic Generated Signatures Reflect the Subject Motor Programs? A Pilot Study
Antonio Parziale, Moises Diaz, Miguel A. Ferrer and Angelo Marcelli 119

Characteristics of Bidirectional Unimanual and Bimanual Drawing Movements
Saira Talwar, Zhujun Pan, Rejean Plamondon and Arend Van Gemmert 123

An Exploratory Study into On-line Feedback and Movement Plane Orientation
Arend Van Gemmert, Shelby Montgomery, Jasmine Abdalla and Christopher Aiken 128


Handwriting and Neuro Diseases

Alzheimer's Disease and Handwriting - What Do we Know so Far?
Carina Fernandes and José Manuel Lopes Lima 131

Kinematic Analysis of Handwriting in Parkinson Disease
Flavia Costa and Agostino Accardo 135

Do Handwriting Difficulties of Parkinson's Patients Depend on their Impaired Ability to Retain the Motor Plan? A Pilot Study
Rosa Senatore and Angelo Marcelli 139

Handwriting Analysis and e-Health: A Brief Overview
Claudio De Stefano, Francesco Fontanella, Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo and Alessandra Scotto di Freca 143


Forensic Handwriting Examination

From Complexity to Transparency in Forensic Science: A Review of the Work and Legacy of Dr. Bryan Found
Heidi Harralson and Emily Will 79

Effect of Visual Feedback on the Static and Kinematic Characteristics of Signatures
Michael Pertsinakis and Hans-Leo Teulings 83

Dissimulation in Biometric Signatures
Maria Grazia de Corti, Grazia Reali and Laura Battistini 88

Alfred Binet, Jules Courtier and Biometry. The Speed of Handwriting Movements from "Edison Pen" to Biometry
Milena Pugnaloni, Chantal Sala, Roberto Federiconi and Manuela Vezzadini 92


Pattern Recognition for Forensic Application

Dimensional Parameters of Handwriting - An Analytical Study of the Height of Graphemes
Vincenzo Fiorentino, Andrea Chiuri, Claudio Ciampini, Sabino D'Agnelli, Gianmarco Dentici, Vito Matranga and Emanuele Paniz 148

Combining FHE Features with mMachine Decision Making for Automatic Writer Identification
Antonio Parziale, Rosa Senatore, Angelo Marcelli, Anna Paola Rizzo, Cristiano Molinari, Andrea Giuseppe Cappuzzo and Fabio Fontana 153

Assessment of Finger-based On-line Signature Verification
Ruben Tolosana, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Javier Ortega-Garcia and Julian Fierrez 157

Offline Signature Verification Based on Bipartite Approximation of Graph Edit Distance
Paul Maergner, Kaspar Riesen, Rolf Ingold and Andreas Fischer 162


Special Session: Sensory and Motor Brain-Machine-Interfaces for Grasping
and Manipulation: From Basic to Clinical Applications

Biological and Bionic Hands: Natural Neural Coding and Artificial Perception
Sliman Bensmaia 41

Neural Decoding of Hand Movements from Scalp Electroencephalography: A Review
Jose L Contreras-Vidal, Andrew Paek, Harshavardhan Agashe, Trent Bradberry and Jose Azorin 45

Restoration of Finger Movements in Everyday Life Environments Using Brain-Machine Interfaces
Surjo R. Soekadar, Marius Nann and Matthias Witkowski 49

Post-Stroke Hemiplegia Therapeutic Pipeline: Neural Reconditioning Through Brain-Robotics Interaction
Junichi Ushiba 54

Quantitative Evaluation of Handwriting and Upper Jimb Kinematics by Means of Optoelectronic Systems: State of the Art and Application to Subjects with Parkinson's Disease
Manuela Galli, Andrea Ancillao, Veronica Cimolin, Giorgio Albertini and Maria Francesca De Pandis 58


Special Session: Digital Palaeography and Codicology

Digital Palaeography and Codicology: What's Going On?
Marilena Maniaci 185

Text Recognition for Medieval Documents. A Gentle Introduction to the Service Platform "Transkribus"
Hubert Alisade

Automatic Algorithms for Medieval Manuscript Analysis
Ruggero Pintus, Ying Yang, Holly Rushmeier and Enrico Gobbetti 193

Visualisation and Dynamic Analysis of Medieval Writing Processes in the Context of Neurological Diseases and Disorders
Stephen Smith, Márjory Da Costa-Abreu, Deborah Thorpe

Improving Handwriting Binarization on Historical Documents
Manuel Bouillon, Rolf Ingold and Marcus Liwicki 197


Poster Session: Forensic Applications

Uyghur Handwritten Signature Recognition Based on BP Neural Network
Ahat Yimin, Mahpirat Mamat, Hornisa Mamat, Alimjan Aysa and Kurban Ubul 16

Overview and New Trends in Dynamic Signature Verification
Donato Impedovo and Giuseppe Pirlo 20

Feature Evaluation for Handwritng: A Ranking-based Approach
Francesco Fontanella, Claudio De Stefano and Alessandra Scotto di Freca 24

Evaluation of the Distance Between Averaged Handwritten Shape and Fonts by Earth Mover's Distance
Yoshinori Akao and Yoshiyasu Higashikawa 29

User Adaptation for Multi-classifier Signature Verification Based on the Kinematic Theory
Angelika Garz, Florian Schütz, Alessandro Villa, Réjean Plamondon and Andreas Fischer 33

Looking at the Ink Distribution for Assessing Writing Modalities in Forensic Handwriting Examination
Sergio Frontini, Giuseppe Giordano, Francesco Dellavalle, Antonio Parziale and Angelo Marcelli 37


Poster Session: Cultural Heritage and Education

Automatic Page Segmentation from Historical Handwritten Documents
Arpita Chakraborty, Michael Blumenstein and Umapada Pal 96

Does Exercise in Children with Learning Disabilities Improve Cursive?
Graziella Pettinati, Heidi Harralson and Hans-Leo Teulings 100

Keyword Spotting in Historical Documents Based on Handwriting Graphs and Hausdorff Edit Distance
Mohammad Reza Ameri, Michael Stauffer, Kaspar Riesen, Tien D. Bui and Andreas Fischer 105

Preliminary Study of t0, a Sigma-lognormal Parameter Extracted from Young Children’s Controlled Scribbles
Celine Remi, Jimmy Nagau, Jean Vaillant and Réjean Plamondon 109


Poster Session: Handwriting Analysis and Neuroscience

Evidence of Neurological Symptoms in the Handwriting of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Martin Jarvis, Hans-Leo Teulings and Heidi Harralson 166

The Frequency of Occurence of Handwriting Features in Online Male and Female Handwriting
Erika Bencsik and Erika Griechisch 169

Influence of Gender on Handwriting of Young Subjects
Federica Mammoli, Cecilia Pescarollo, Valentina Piccoli and Agostino Accardo 173

A Computational Model-based Analysis of Cerebellar Plasticity in Motor Learning
Danilo Romano, Angelo Marcelli and Rosa Senatore 177

Modification in Handwriting Size Changes the Velocity of Execution: Literature and Experimental Results
Nicolò Di Toma, Mirka Mantoan and Stefania Rendina 181