An exploratory study on the handwritten allographic features of multi-ethnic population with different educational backgrounds
Ethnicity, native and/or foreign language knowledge, as well as the learned writing systems potentially influence the development of an individual’s handwriting. The unique education system consisting of National schools, Chinese-medium vernacular schools, Tamil-medium vernacular schools, and Islami...
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2022
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| author | Gannetion, Linthini Kong, Yong Wong Poh, Ying Lim Kah, Haw Chang Lim Abdullah, Ahmad Fahmi |
| author_facet | Gannetion, Linthini Kong, Yong Wong Poh, Ying Lim Kah, Haw Chang Lim Abdullah, Ahmad Fahmi |
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| description | Ethnicity, native and/or foreign language knowledge, as well as the learned writing systems potentially influence the development of an individual’s handwriting. The unique education system consisting of National schools, Chinese-medium vernacular schools, Tamil-medium vernacular schools, and Islamic religious schools in Malaysia may have established specific characteristic handwritten allographic features that deserve investigation within the intelligence context. This study was aimed to explore handwritten allographic features of handwriting samples from 120 subjects (30 writers from four different educational backgrounds mentioned above). Characteristic features which could be attributed to the study groups were statistically analyzed and identified. In this study, thirteen allographic features, including letters "A", "B", "D", "H", "p", "T", "t", "w", "X" and "x", were found to be discriminative. Such information could serve to indicate the primary education system undergone by a writer; enabling the comparison of different handwriting profiles and allowing characterization of writers to a specific group of people. |
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| spelling | upm-1002512024-07-09T02:17:08Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/100251/ An exploratory study on the handwritten allographic features of multi-ethnic population with different educational backgrounds Gannetion, Linthini Kong, Yong Wong Poh, Ying Lim Kah, Haw Chang Lim Abdullah, Ahmad Fahmi Ethnicity, native and/or foreign language knowledge, as well as the learned writing systems potentially influence the development of an individual’s handwriting. The unique education system consisting of National schools, Chinese-medium vernacular schools, Tamil-medium vernacular schools, and Islamic religious schools in Malaysia may have established specific characteristic handwritten allographic features that deserve investigation within the intelligence context. This study was aimed to explore handwritten allographic features of handwriting samples from 120 subjects (30 writers from four different educational backgrounds mentioned above). Characteristic features which could be attributed to the study groups were statistically analyzed and identified. In this study, thirteen allographic features, including letters "A", "B", "D", "H", "p", "T", "t", "w", "X" and "x", were found to be discriminative. Such information could serve to indicate the primary education system undergone by a writer; enabling the comparison of different handwriting profiles and allowing characterization of writers to a specific group of people. Public Library of Science 2022-10-07 Article PeerReviewed Gannetion, Linthini and Kong, Yong Wong and Poh, Ying Lim and Kah, Haw Chang and Lim Abdullah, Ahmad Fahmi (2022) An exploratory study on the handwritten allographic features of multi-ethnic population with different educational backgrounds. PLoS One, 17 (10). art. no. 268756. pp. 1-16. ISSN 1932-6203 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0268756 10.1371/journal.pone.0268756 |
| spellingShingle | Gannetion, Linthini Kong, Yong Wong Poh, Ying Lim Kah, Haw Chang Lim Abdullah, Ahmad Fahmi An exploratory study on the handwritten allographic features of multi-ethnic population with different educational backgrounds |
| title | An exploratory study on the handwritten allographic features of multi-ethnic population with different educational backgrounds |
| title_full | An exploratory study on the handwritten allographic features of multi-ethnic population with different educational backgrounds |
| title_fullStr | An exploratory study on the handwritten allographic features of multi-ethnic population with different educational backgrounds |
| title_full_unstemmed | An exploratory study on the handwritten allographic features of multi-ethnic population with different educational backgrounds |
| title_short | An exploratory study on the handwritten allographic features of multi-ethnic population with different educational backgrounds |
| title_sort | exploratory study on the handwritten allographic features of multi-ethnic population with different educational backgrounds |
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