计算机时代的书写心理学

Handwriting Psychology in the Age of Computers

计算机的普及使人们阅读及书写的能力降低,这引发了社会对书写的关注。书写涉及大量高级神经活动,与认知、人格、疾病等均有关联,对个体发展也具有重要作用。现代书写心理学通过使用书写板等设备,实现了对书写过程及结果的量化研究,发现了书写速度、压力、握笔等指标与智力、认知负荷等的一些关联。未来对书写过程的研究可以进一步深入;测量方面的研究成果可以应用到日常人机交互及教学、司法等实践中;还可以研究用书写促进个体认知及人格发展的具体途径。

Evolved from graphology, graphonomics is a multidisciplinary field about handwriting and related skills. Since handwriting is a cognitive ability and even a survival skill, the study of graphonomics contributes to psychologists, educationalists, children, and ordinary adults. While traditional graphologists could study only the two-dimension handwriting, graphonomics scholars have new software and hardware that allows them to delve deeply into new aspects of handwriting like velocify, acceleration, pressure, grip height, and grip force. Handwriting has the benefit of being objective and standardized, and researchers have studied how graphonomics is related to cognition, personality, disease, and so forth. Because digital writing tools are becoming more common, more attention will be paid to a comprehensive understanding of handwriting. Furthermore, handwriting, as a psychometrical tool, could he applied to teaching evaluation, criminal investigation, and artificial intelligence. Eventually, according to theories of embodied cognition, handwriting could also be used as an intervention to enhance cognition and personality.