How Handwriting

Communicates…! Submitted by:

Prassenjit Lahiri C-33

Nikhil Sharma C-60

Saugata Palit C-55

Handwriting refers to a person's writing created with awriting utensil such as a pen or pencil. The termencompasses both printing and cursive styles and isseparate from formal calligraphy or typeface.

Because each person's handwriting is unique, it can beused to verify a document's writer, and the deteriorationof a person's handwriting is also a symptom or result ofcertain diseases.

What is Handwriting?

Uniqueness Of Handwriting

Each person's handwriting is unique. Even identical twins write differently. A person's handwriting is also relatively stable and changes little over time.

Characteristics of handwriting include:

• specific shape of letters, e.g. their roundness or sharpness.

• regular or irregular spacing between letters.

• the slope of the letters.

• the rhythmic repetition of the elements or arrhythmia.

• the pressure to the paper.

• the average size of letters.

Uses of Handwriting

• Handwriting analyzing can tell a lot aboutpersonality.

• Large companies use graphology (handwritinganalyzing) to check job applications,

• The police still use handwriting experts todetermine who wrote what.

• business and professionals• employee hiring and human resource• self improvement and professional speaking• Counseling and therapy

Uses of Handwriting

• Understanding yourself

• Knowing your friends, colleagues and relatives.

• Selecting a life partner

• Selecting a business partner

• Child development

• Criminology

• Recruitment

After handwriting analysis

• An individual can know his/her strengthsweaknesses

• sees himself/herself in a totally new light.

• It can reveal various problems and itsreasons that are associated with our life.

• Analysis does not change you, it simplymakes you aware.

Personality Formation Cycle

How to Analyze/ Examine Handwriting

Graphology

What is Graphology?

Graphology is the analysis of the physicalcharacteristics and patterns of handwritingpurporting to be able to identify the writer,indicating psychological state at the time ofwriting, or evaluating personality characteristics.It is generally considered pseudoscience. Theterm is sometimes incorrectly used to referto forensic document examination.

Graphology or Handwriting Analysis is a science of interpreting a person's character from his/her personal handwriting.

Coupled with psychology and knowledge of human behavior, it can be used for many varied purposes. For example, Recruitment, Marriage compatibility, Career Guidance, Motivate workers, Child development etc.

Signature is not the best way to analyze character from handwriting , for several reasons.

Firstly, the Signature is sometimes illegible and different from the normal handwriting.

Secondly, the lone signature does not give enough words and letters to help the graphologist in his/her judgment. But signature samples do have certain advantage. Firstly they are easy to collect; even over long periods of time.

What is Graphoanalysis

• Graphoanalysis is a scientific system of identifyingand assessing the character and personality of anindividual through a study of handwriting. Thetechniques used are based on a well-defined,standardized method of:

– identifying strokes,

– relating these strokes to specific personality traits, and

– evaluating the relative strength of the interrelated traits.

OCR: Handwriting• For more than thirty years, researchers have

been working on handwriting recognition. • As in the case of speech processing, they

aimed at designing systems able to understand personal encoding of natural language

• Methods and recognition rates depend on the level of constraints on handwriting.

• The constraints are mainly characterized by the:– types of handwriting, – number of scriptors, – size of the vocabulary – spatial layout.

Examples

Handwriting Helps in…

Recruitment:- Graphology can also help inrecruiting the right people for the right job.

• Examples:-

A company wants to recruit excellent teamplayers or very strong leaders etc., graphologycan help in identifying these individuals via theirhandwriting and this can easily benefit theindividual and organization.

Recruitment Handwriting can reveal manycharacters of person, below are some of them:

– Leadership quality of a candidate

– Trustworthiness in handling finance

– Tendency to change the job/company frequently

– Behavior with juniors

– Behavior with seniors

– Behavior with people of the opposite sex in the organization

– Revolting against management

– Handling conflict situations

– Capacity to work under pressure

– Creative thinker

– Optimistic nature of the candidate

– Group-work abilities

– Quality management ability

– Ability to complete the project/job in time

– Job sincerity of a candidate etc

Knowing Friends and Relatives

After analyzing your handwriting , you can come to know• which person is capable of speaking lie ,• who is trustworthy,• who has a suicidal tendency,• jealousy nature of a person,• level of confidence,• romantic attitude of a person,• introvert, extrovert,• which student gets good marks,• argumentative nature,• Who has habit of telling “I don’t have time”,• Why some people express their feelings and some don’t• who are the people who get tired by watching cricket on TV• who don’t get tired after playing cricket on the ground etc

Parents can also use Handwriting:-Child development

• Understand their children in a better perspective

• Know their strengths and weaknesses

• Mould them to enhance their hidden skills

• Better individuals of tomorrow