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The height of handwriting

1980; Elsevier BV; Volume: 46; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0001-6918(80)90006-2

1873-6297

Alan M. Wing,

Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques

An experiment is described that examines the basis of the control of vertical amplitude (height) of handwriting. It is shown that changes in movement duration accompany changes in height whether the latter are associated with instructions to write larger than normal (between words) or because the letters to be written (e, l) differ in height (within words). The proportional differences in movement duration match the proportional differences in amplitude between words but not within words. It is concluded that two different time-based mechanisms are invoked for handwriting height control: interval adjustment for writing size changes between words and duration selection for letters differing in height within a word.