Photographic Analysis of Certain Letter Forms with Respect to Speed Changes and Stability
The photographic method of analyzing hand writing has been adapted to the purposes of this experiment. It has the advantage of being the most exacting and quantitatively suitable technique for the analysis of stability and speed. Some of the major specific measures in the determination of these characteristics are: duration and number of pauses, duration and speed of strokes and forms, percent of time to contact strokes, and percent of time to air strokes within the form. Stability in writing, meaning no change, deter ioration, or improvement of writing over a period of time, is measured in terms of changes in these specific measures.