VACHE
Virtual Assistant for Chinese Handwriting Education
Introduction
Traditionally, in teaching Chinese handwriting, the teacher writes a character on the blackboard, and then students try to follow the teacher in order to write the same character. If the students submit their handwriting exercises on a piece of paper, the teacher can check whether a student's handwriting is spatially correct by looking at its shape but he/she is not able to verify if the student is writing in the correct stroke order with the correct number of strokes. It is important for the teacher to point out whether the student's handwriting is good or bad, but more importantly the teacher needs to specify where the problem is. To aid teachers on handwriting education and stimulate student's interest, a series of projects using pattern recognition techniques have been established. The projects focus on various issues in Chinese handwriting education. |
Objective
- Enable students to learn Chinese handwriting anywhere
- Stimulate the interest and motivation of students
- Improve learning efficiency for Chinese handwriting
- Teach students handwriting with Automatic Analysis and Feedback tool.
- Assist students to learn handwriting more effectively with less teacher's guidance.
- Apply pattern recognition techniques to facilitate handwriting education
- Save some trees as the handwriting is done with electronic ink without using paper
