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Little is known concerning eye movements during handwriting, especially for children with handwriting disabilities (dysgraphia), because of head movements which limit this kind of analysis. In this paper we present an exploratory study analyzing eye movements during a handwriting copy task using eye-tracking glasses in children with comorbid dysgraphia and Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), and in Control (CTL) children. We found that children with DCD spent less time looking at what they were writing than CTL children. Moreover, children with DCD made shorter fixations when writing and these fixations tend to be more numerous, suggesting distinct oculomotor strategies during handwriting copy tasks in these children.
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The authors are grateful to Nathalie Guyader for her help in the analysis of eye-tracking data, Vincent Brault for the precious feedback and the parents and the children for their contribution. This work was supported by a grant from the CDP IDEX NeuroCoG and the FR/SFR Pôle Grenoble Cognition from the University.
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Lambert, R., Boutet, J., Labyt, E., Jolly, C. (2023). Analysis of Eye Movements in Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder During a Handwriting Copy Task. In: Parziale, A., Diaz, M., Melo, F. (eds) Graphonomics in Human Body Movement. Bridging Research and Practice from Motor Control to Handwriting Analysis and Recognition. IGS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14285. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45461-5_3
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