The impact of media and background color on handwriting

Chao Yang Yang; Wei Lin Hsu; Ting Yi Chou Huang

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07635-5_18

The impact of media and background color on handwriting

Chao Yang Yang, Wei Lin Hsu, Ting Yi Chou Huang

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Abstract

Handwriting is an important issue in Taiwan's school system, and it remains to be determined if tablet computers are a suitable medium for the development of good handwriting. The primary purpose of this study is to determine whether visual and tactile instructional strategies can be used to help students improve their handwriting performance. The study recruited 31 6th grade elementary school students to hand write a short phrase on backgrounds of various colors (white, red, yellow, green and blue), both on pen and on tablet computer. Finally, a questionnaire was administered to determine emotional associations with the various background colors. Results showed that media type does have an impact on handwriting performance, with familiar media (paper) providing better results. Descriptive statistics indicate that using a red background provided the best subjective and objective performance, and consistently produced characters of better proportional size. Red was also found to have an emotional association with excitement and triggered positive emotions among the students.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Design, User Experience, and Usability
Subtitle of host publication	User Experience Design for Everyday Life Applications and Services - Third International Conference, DUXU 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Proc.
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	173-183
Number of pages	11
Edition	PART 3
ISBN (Print)	9783319076348
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07635-5_18
State	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	3rd International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability: User Experience Design for Everyday Life Applications and Services, DUXU 2014, Held as Part of 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2014 - Heraklion, Crete, Greece Duration: 22 06 2014 → 27 06 2014

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Number	PART 3
Volume	8519 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	3rd International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability: User Experience Design for Everyday Life Applications and Services, DUXU 2014, Held as Part of 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2014
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Heraklion, Crete
Period	22/06/14 → 27/06/14

Keywords

Color
Educational strategy
Handwriting
Tablet computer
Writing

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Yang, C. Y., Hsu, W. L., & Huang, T. Y. C. (2014). The impact of media and background color on handwriting. In Design, User Experience, and Usability: User Experience Design for Everyday Life Applications and Services - Third International Conference, DUXU 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Proc. (PART 3 ed., pp. 173-183). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8519 LNCS, No. PART 3). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07635-5_18

Yang, Chao Yang ; Hsu, Wei Lin ; Huang, Ting Yi Chou. / The impact of media and background color on handwriting. Design, User Experience, and Usability: User Experience Design for Everyday Life Applications and Services - Third International Conference, DUXU 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Proc.. PART 3. ed. Springer Verlag, 2014. pp. 173-183 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); PART 3).

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The impact of media and background color on handwriting. / Yang, Chao Yang; Hsu, Wei Lin; Huang, Ting Yi Chou.
Design, User Experience, and Usability: User Experience Design for Everyday Life Applications and Services - Third International Conference, DUXU 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Proc.. PART 3. ed. Springer Verlag, 2014. p. 173-183 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8519 LNCS, No. PART 3).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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