Welcome from the President of the Society
A.Marcelli
Welcome from the Conference organizers
A. Vinter & J-L. Velay

9.00 Invited talk

A computational approach to forensic sciences
K. Franke

10.00 Coffee break and
Poster session

A combining method of non-linear normalization to support reading damaged character pattern on historical documents
A. Kitadai, M. Nakagawa, H. Baba & A. Watanabe

10.30 Signature analysis and authentification

Analysis of Signature Complexity
L.C. Alewijnse, E. Van Den Heuvel, R.D. Stoel & K. Franke

Towards a protocol for forensic document examination based on handwriting generation
S. Frontini, G. Giordano & A. Marcelli

Towards an inferred data accuracy assessment of forensic examination methodologies for signatures
R. Guest, M. Fairhurst & A. Linnell

Evaluation of novel features and different models for online signature verification in a real-world scenario
M. Liwicki

Pen pressure as a discriminatory feature between genuine and forged signatures
L. Mohammed, B. Found, M. Caligiuri & D. Rogers.

14.00 Parkinson’s Disease, Movement Disorders and Handwriting analysis

Complex bimanual coordination is performed accurately using verbal instructions in Parkinson’s Disease patients
A.W. Van Gemmert, S. Ringenbach, H. Shill & G. Stelmach

Assessments of fine motor control in Parkinson’s Disease patients with the Neuroskill™ analysis of handwriting dynamics
R. Shrairman & A. Landau

Parkinson’s Disease differentially affects adaptation to gradual as compared to sudden visuomotor distortions
A.Venkatakrishnan, J. Banquet, Y. Burnod & J. Contreras-Vidal

Handwriting performance measures of “real life” tasks: A comparison between the performance of patients with Parkinson’s Disease and controls
S. Rosenblum, M. Samuel, S. Zlotnik & I. Schlesinger

Movement analysis for stroke susceptibility assessment
C. O’Reilly, R. Plamondon, B. Clément, P. Mathieu & L-H. Lebrun

Handwriting in patients with Parkinson’s Disease: effect of L-Dopa and stimulation of the sub-thalamic nucleus on motor anticipation
C. Bidet-Ildei, S. Kandel, P. Pollack & J-P. Orliaguet

Designing an Ensemble Classifier for classifying parkinsonian handwriting
S. Chandra, D. Subramanian, V. Chakravarthy, A. Srinivasan, J. Kumar

16.20 Coffee break and
Poster session

Automatic analysis of on-line sketch based on use of local descriptors
N. Renau-Ferrer & C. Rémi

Writer identification of Arabic documents by multi-scale modelling
Z. Shi, S. Setlur & V. Govindaraju

17.00 Invited talk

Brain and Parkinson’s disease
A.L. Benabid

18.00 Social event

Wine Degustation

Language and Writing Development
V. Connelly

9.30 Coffee break and
Poster session

Temporal aspects of Handwriting skill development: A computerized study utilizing the ComPET
L. Gafni & S. Rosenblum

Gender and stereotype effect on children’s handwriting speed
K. Semoglou, E. Griva & K. Klapadora

Impact of children’s handwriting skill on execution periods and text quality
T. Olive, R.A. Alves, S.L. Castro & M. Branco

10.00 Language and Handwriting production

For a psycholinguistic approach of handwriting production
S. Kandel

Syllable frequency effects in Spanish handwriting production
O. Alfonso & C. Alvarez

Handwriting variability in children writing letters: a study in dyslexics, dysgraphics and proficient handwriters
J-L. Velay, F. Henin, C. Moulin, T. Thomas, I. Devos-Charles & M. Habib

11.00 Forensics and Handwriting variability

Bayesian evaluation of the shape of handwritten characters “a”
R. Marquis, S. Bozza, M. Schmittbuhl & F . Taroni

Disguising writers identification: an experimental study
C. De Stefano, A. Marcelli & M. Rendina

Handwriting variability in movement disorder patients and effects of fatigue
H. Harralson, H-L. Teulings & B. Farley

Comparing Handwriting variability under four postural conditions
E. Sciacca, M-B. Langlois-Peter, J-C. Gilhodes, P. Margot & J-L. Velay

14.00 Development: Handwriting and drawing

Haptics in handwriting teaching
F. Bara, A. Hillairet de Boisferon & E. Gentaz

Early development of writing skills: A longitudinal study with preschool writers
O. Soler & S. Kandel

The links between motor development and the development of handwriting among eight-to-eleven-year-olds
I. Sage, P. Zesiger & C. Garitte

A comparison of three methods of learning to write a new letterform
A.Overvelde & W. Hulstijn

Developmental and handedness effects on tapping and drawing performance in 3- to-6 year olds
H. Van Mier

15.40 Coffee break and
Poster session

The development of gender and task related differences in fine motor tasks
A. Ypslanti, A. Zikouli, K. Semoglou & E. Kadrefi

Do 5-year-old children and adults spontaneously draw “golden rectangles and triangles”?
E. Gentaz & V. Izard

Handwriting difficulties in Tunisian children: a descriptive study
S. Bouamama, N. Stucchi, P. Zesiger & I. Bouzaoueche

16.10 Handwriting recognition and signature verification

Offline cursive character recognition: a state-of-the art comparison
J. Thornton, J. Faichney, M. Blumenstein V. Nguyen & T. Hine

Modeling relative positioning of handwritten patterns
A. Delaye, S. Mace & E. Anquetil

A Handwritten Pashto Database with multi-aspects for handwriting recognition
M. Shah, C. Lei He, N. Nobile & C. Y. Suen

Using Bayesian networks for combining classifiers: a new evolutionary learning algorithm
C. De Stefano, F. Fontanella, A. Marcelli & A. Scotto di Freca

Model approach to DTW signature verification using error signals
J. Putz-Leszczynska & A. Pacut

Text identification from mixed documents using weighted features
X. Peng, S. Setlur, V.Govindaraju & R.Sitaram

19.00 Social event

Conference dinner

Brain and Handwriting
J.F. Demonet

10.00 Coffee break and
Poster session

Visuo-motor tracking in a pursuit loop-drawing task
J. Yank & A. Van Gemmert

The role of basal ganglia in performing simple reaching movements: a computational model
M. Mohamed, V. Chakravarthy, D. Subramanian & B. Ravindran

10.30 Drawing and handwriting: Movement disorders

A computer learning model using hand-drawn images for the assessment of visuo-spatial neglect
Y. Liang, M.Fairhurst, R. Guest & J. Potter

Pen grip force in writer’s cramp
J. Hermsdörfer, C. Marquardt, A. Schneider, W. Fürholzer & B. Baur

The intermittency of Braille reading finger velocities
B. Hughes, A. Van Gemmert & G. Stelmach

11.30 Handwriting: Perception and     production

Neural correlates of the visual perception of handwritten letters
M. Longcamp, Y. Hlushchuk & R. Hari

Effects of orientation and eccentricity on graphomotor coordination dynamics
J. Dann, S. Athenes & P.G. Zanone

Does graphic shapes perception mirror handwriting patterns production
Y. Wamain, V. Kostrubiec, M. Longcamp, J. Tallet  & P.G. Zanone

14.00 Neuroscience

Intentional control and biomechanical exploitation in preparatory handwriting
I. Bosga-Stork, J.  Bosga & R.G.J. Meulenbroek

Some relationships between eye movements and handwriting
J. Sebastian, D.K. Rogers & J.C. Sita

Circadian Rhythm in Handwriting: Comparison of German and Dutch handwriting kinematics in two 40 h-sleep deprivation protocols
I. Jasper, M. Gordijn, A. Haüssler, C. Marquardt & J. Hermsdörfer

A comparison of some analytical models describing the velocity profile of rapid movements
M. Djioua & R. Plamondon

15.20  Historical Document processing

Contour based features for the classification of ancient manuscripts
I. Siddiqi, F. Cloppet & N. Vincent

Copying and composition in scribal culture
A. Conti

16.00 Coffee break and
Poster session

Requirements for intelligent pen based annotation systems: an exemplary study with semantic eInk
M. Liwicki & A. Dengel

Multi-script baseline detection using perceptive vision
A. Lemaitre, J. Camillerapp & B. Coüasnon

16.30 Identification and  Generation

Writer identification for multi-script multi-writer manuscript
U. Garain & T. Paquet

A complete method of personal handwriting synthesis
S. Chowdhury, S. Das & D. Roy

17.10 Closure

Closure of the Conference