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Improving Visibility and Reducing Resistance of Writers to Fusion of Handwritten and Type Characters

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Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing (CollabTech 2018)

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Most Japanese people feel happy to receive a handwritten message, but they often have resistance to writing a message by hand. One of the reasons for this is that they are shy about showing their handwriting to others. In this study, we consider a technique that fuses handwriting with typeface in order to reduce the resistance to handwriting and improve the impression of the message. Experimental results demonstrate the visibility and readability of the considered fusion technique and show that the resistance to sending handwritten messages fused with typeface can be decreased.

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This work was supported in part by JST, JST ACCEL Grant Number JPMJAC1602, Japan, and Meiji University Priority Research A.

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  1. Meiji University, 4-21-1, Nakano-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Mikako Sasaki, Junki Saito & Satoshi Nakamura

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  1. Department of Informatics, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan

    Hironori Egi

  2. Graduate School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan

    Takaya Yuizono

  3. University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Nelson Baloian

  4. Wakayama University, Wakayama City, Japan

    Takashi Yoshino

  5. Otsuma Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan

    Satoshi Ichimura

  6. Departamento de Informatica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

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Sasaki, M., Saito, J., Nakamura, S. (2018). Improving Visibility and Reducing Resistance of Writers to Fusion of Handwritten and Type Characters. In: Egi, H., Yuizono, T., Baloian, N., Yoshino, T., Ichimura, S., Rodrigues, A. (eds) Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing. CollabTech 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11000. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98743-9_15

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