The goal of this project is to implement educational program for teaching handwriting on tablet PCs or touchscreen devices. It should help children learn the shapes of letters and improve their fine motorics, which is a different and not widely known task than handwriting recognition.
The application should be usable either as a practice and learning tool for children (with or without direct teacher's supervision) or as an analytical tool for teachers. It should help the child by providing animated tutorials with spoken descriptions talking and guessing possible problems (wrong pressure, bad shape/direction). The application should also help the teacher to focus on identified problems and compare them with historical data for the student.
The application will consist of several modules: practices, like animated demonstrations accompanied by spoken description or tracing a template; teacher's tools such as editor and analyzer. Letters written by a student will be analyzed and stored in a database for future teacher's work.