A visuo-haptic device-telemaque-increases kindergarten children's handwriting acquisition(2007)

APAPalluel-Germain, Richard, et al. "A visuo-haptic device-telemaque-increases kindergarten children's handwriting acquisition." Second Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (WHC'07)
. IEEE, 2007.

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• Present Research
  • 'Telemaque' increase the fluency of handwriting production of cursive letters
• Test
  • Fluency was analysed by kinematic parameters
    • Average veleocity
    • number of velocity peaks
    • number of breaks
• Result
  • The fluency of handwriting production : ↓
  • The movements : Faster
  • The velocity peaks : ↓
  • Lifting the pen : ↓
• In conclusion
  • Telemaque device may help kindergarthen children to increase the proactive strategy to control handwriting movements.
  • The fluency of handwriting production was improved after the VH intervention, for each other. Movement is more fluent. Visuo-Haptic intervention increases the handwriting production of cursive letters/
  • Consequently, using telemaque helps the motor system to incorporate the basic rules of motor production and therefore leads children to use proactive strategy to control handwriting movements.
• Future Work
  • May be a solution in order to improve handwriting in dysgraphic children
  • Problem of handwriting distotion - including incorrect letter forms disconnected letters wavy lines, lack of loops touched-up letters irregular letter shapes incorrect size proportions among letters.