Publication detail

Developmental Dysgraphia Diagnosis Based on Quantitative Analysis of Online Handwriting

ZVONČÁK, V.

Original Title

Developmental Dysgraphia Diagnosis Based on Quantitative Analysis of Online Handwriting

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

The prevalence of handwriting difficulties amongs chool-aged children is around 10–30%. Until now, there is no objective method to diagnose and rate developmental dysgraphia (DD) in Czech Republic. The goal of this study is to propose a new method of objective DD diagnosis based on quantitative analysis of online handwriting. For this purpose, we extracted a set of spatial, temporal, kinematic and dynamic features from three handwriting tasks. Consequently, we performed a correlation analysis between these features and score of handwriting proficiency screening questionaire (HPSQ), in order to identify parameters with a good discrimination power. Using random forests classifier in combination with quantification of alphabet writing task, we reached nearly 77% classification accuracy (75% sensitivity, 80% specificity). This pilot study proves the possibility of automatic DD diagnosis in children cohort writing with cursive letters.

Keywords

developmental dysgraphia; digitizing tablet; online handwriting; quantitative analysis; diagnosis

Authors

ZVONČÁK, V.

Released

26. 4. 2018

Location

Brno

ISBN

978-80-214-5614-3

Book

Proceedings of the 24nd Conference STUDENT EEICT 2018

Pages from

446

Pages to

450

Pages count

5

URL

http://www.feec.vutbr.cz/EEICT/archiv/sborniky/EEICT_2018_sbornik.pdf

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT147385,
  author="Vojtěch {Zvončák}",
  title="Developmental Dysgraphia Diagnosis Based on Quantitative Analysis of Online Handwriting",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 24nd Conference STUDENT EEICT 2018",
  year="2018",
  pages="446--450",
  address="Brno",
  isbn="978-80-214-5614-3",
  url="http://www.feec.vutbr.cz/EEICT/archiv/sborniky/EEICT_2018_sbornik.pdf"
}