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TRAZO: a tool to acquire handwriting skills using tablet-PC devices

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Alberto deDiego-Cottinelli,

Beatriz BarrosAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '10: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 278 - 281

https://doi.org/10.1145/1810543.1810591

Published: 09 June 2010 Publication History

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The purpose of the paper is to describe TRAZO, a system aimed at the acquisition of handwriting skills using tablet-PC devices. This tool focuses on the pre-writing phase and is aimed at 3-year-old children, who practice different strokes following a sequence defined by the teacher. They usually draw straight lines first, then curves, and then move on to a combination of both. The system evaluates the exercises automatically, maintains a user model and includes a monitoring tool to show the learning processes graphically. The aim is to achieve hand coordination, visual perception; to learn to grip the pencil properly, and to practice the direction and pressure of the pencil (or any other object used to write).

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TRAZO: a tool to acquire handwriting skills using tablet-PC devices
1. Applied computing
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IDC '10: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

June 2010

389 pages

ISBN:9781605589510

DOI:10.1145/1810543

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Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Miquel Oliver
Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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