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HAWK (Help Agent for Writing Knowledge) is a new instructional software for the essentials of writing that runs on tablets. In trials with an after-school K-12 subject group, the use of the software showed improved writing capabilities of most students. One of the activities supported by the software involves students drawing letter shapes by tracing paths through scaffolded channels. Additionally, we detail the design studies we performed prior to implementing the full software package. We focused on how software can provide graphical feedback to students in the context of a stylus and touch-based interface for the basic educational activity of learning to write letters of the alphabet.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of this research under grant P50HD071764 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We thank our co-workers at the University of Washington Learning Disabilities Research Center. Thanks also go to all the students who have used the software and to their parents who enabled their participation by bringing them to the university. We would also like to thank the reviewers for their encouragement and constructive suggestions.
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Thompson, R., Tanimoto, S., Berninger, V., Nagy, W. (2016). Design Studies for Stylus and Finger-Based Interaction in Writing Instruction on Tablets. In: Hammond, T., Valentine, S., Adler, A. (eds) Revolutionizing Education with Digital Ink. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31193-7_4
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