Automatic analysis of the structuring of children's drawings and writing

✍ Scribed by Céline Rémi; Carl Frélicot; Pierre Courtellemont

• Book ID: 104161487
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 178 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-3203
• DOI: 10.1016/s0031-3203(01)00094-2

✦ Synopsis

The aim of this work was to build an objective tool for the detection of graphomotor di culties involving disorders in the writing of children. We outline some characteristics of layouts, describing the automation level of the graphic activity. We have deÿned exercises, like copying ÿgures or writing sentences under di erent conditions that allowed us to measure simple aspects of graphomotor skill up to complex ones. A tool was conceived which was able to automatically extract low-level and high-level primitives. Based on such descriptors, we focus on the analysis of the temporal structuring of two particular drawings. In the ÿnal part, we present the method we used to select features that can describe the automation level of the graphic activity and we show that, in most cases, these features allow to discriminate children with academic di culties.