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Application areas

• Kinematics of handwriting
• Handwriting performance/learning/skill acquisition
• Handwriting as an indicator

Examples

• Measuring effects of environmental factors on handwriting
• Handwriting in children, young adults, elderly and patients with movement disorders
• Studying the effects of drugs through handwriting performance

Relevant Features

• Measures speed, size, and variability in mouse and pen strokes and many other features
• Delivers an indication of the functioning of the neuromotor system
• Multiword segmentation
• Submovement analysis
• Real-time feedback of handwriting
• Kinematic parameters can be extracted, plotted and exported
• Statistical analysis of data

Related Literature/Publications

Van Den Heuvel, C.E., Contreras-Vidal, J.L., Teulings, H.L., and Stelmach, G.E. (1998). Effects of nicotine on visuomotor adaptation*. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 24, 421.

Van Gemmert, A.W.A., Teulings, H.L., Contreras-Vidal, J.L., Stelmach, G.E.
(1999). Parkinson's disease and the control of size and speed in handwriting*. Neuropsychologia, 37, 685-694.

Poluha, P.C., Teulings, H.L., Brookshire, R.H. (1998). Handwriting and speech changes across the levodopa cycle in Parkinson's disease*, Acta Psychologica, 100, 71-84.

Van Gemmert, A.W.A., Teulings, H.L., & Stelmach, G.E. (1998).
The influence of mental and motor load on handwriting movements in parkinsonian patients*.
Acta Psychologica, 100, 161-175.

* - Experiment and data analysis conducted with MovAlyzeR/precedessors of MovalyzeR/associated research & measurement concepts.

 

Application areas

• Human Computer Interface
• Analysis of mouse movements
• Aiming/reaching tasks
• Hand-eye coordination

Examples

• Study of menu designs
• Reaction time to external stimuli
• Effects of size of stimuli and stroke direction

Relevant features

• Presentation of visual and sound stimuli on the screen
• Precue and warning stimuli
• Interactive and animated stimuli/targets
• Submovement Analysis
• Kinematic parameters can be extracted, plotted and exported
• Statistical analysis of data

Related Literature/Publications:

Romero DH & Teulings HL (2003). Submovement Analysis in Goal-Directed Pen Movements*, In HL Teulings & AWA Van Gemmert (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the International Graphonomics Society, pp. 103-106, Scottsdale, Arizona: IGS.

Teulings, H.L. & Van Gemmert, W.A. (2003). Goal-directed movements in menu selection in computer-user-interfaces*. H.L. Teulings, Van Gemmert, A.W.A. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the International Graphonomics Society (IGS2003), 2-3 November 2003, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. ISBN 0-9746365-0-9. (p. 99-102) (poster).

Teulings, H.L. (2001). Optimization of Movement Duration in Accurate Handwriting Strokes in Different Directions in Young, Elderly, and Parkinsonian Subjects*.
In R.G.J. Meulenbroek and B. Steenbergen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Conference of the International Graphonomics Society (pp. 40-45). Nijmegen, The Netherlands. ISBN 90 373 0583 0

* - Experiment and data analysis conducted with MovAlyzeR/precedessors of MovalyzeR/associated research & measurement concepts.

 

Application areas

• Courses focusing on human motor control, development, performance, behavior or skill acquisition, human kinetics, gerontology, psychology, movement disorders
• Demonstrations and seminars for students on concepts involving fine motor system.

Examples

• Demonstration of Fitt's Law
• Handwriting/goal-directed movements

 

Please visit our GripAlyzeR™ page, here.

Many tasks require producing a specific grip force with one or two hands, e.g., opening a capped bottle. A unique device has been produced to measure the grip in each and the pulling force as a function of time.

Application Areas

• Isometric grip force measurements
• Bimanual force coordination- Simultaneous measurement of both hands
• Force segmentation
• Pinch-force measurements