Computer-based Assessment for the Stroke Order of Chinese Characters Writing

The purpose of this research is to develop an assessment for examining the stroke order of Chinese character writing by computerized model. The system provides immediate feedback on the input character in terms of its key information of stroke order and some structure relations between strokes so it can accurately identify character writing problems such as wrong stroke direction, wrong stroke order, and inappropriate character shape. This model promises a solution to the difficulty of identifying stroke problems in a traditional paper-pen based character writing test. More importantly, data from this research demonstrates that this system could be an excellent tool for learners of character based languages to practice and monitor their character writing outside class.