Gender identification through handwriting: An online approach

Gennaro Cordasco, Michele Buonanno, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Maria Teresa Riviello, Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Anna Esposito

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Abstract

The present study was designed to identify writer's gender trough online handwriting and drawing analysis. Two groups - one of 126 males (mean age 24.65, SD=2.45) and the other of 114 females (mean age 24.51, SD=2.50) participants were recruited in the experiment. They were asked to perform seven writing and drawing tasks utilizing a digitizing tablet and a special writing device. Seventeen writing features grouped into five categories have been considered. The experiment's results show that the set of considered features enable to discriminate between male and female writers investigating their performance while copying a house drawing (task 2), writing words in capital letters (task 3) and writing a complete sentence in cursive letters (task 7), in particular focusing on Ductus (number of strokes) and Time categories of writing features.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, CogInfoCom 2020 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages197-202
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728182131
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Sept 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, CogInfoCom 2020 - Virtual, Mariehamn, Finland
Duration: 23 Sept 202025 Sept 2020

Publication series

Name11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, CogInfoCom 2020 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference11th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, CogInfoCom 2020
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityVirtual, Mariehamn
Period23/09/2025/09/20

Keywords

  • Drawing
  • Gender recognition
  • Handwriting
  • Online analysis

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