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www.graphonomics.org/igs2011

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM CHAIR: Jose L. Contreras-Vidal, University of Maryland, USA

CO-CHAIR: Juan Lopez-Coronado, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain

Sunday June 12th 17:30-19:00 IGS BOARD MEETING (Board Room 1) 19:00-21:00 IGS REGISTRATION (Hall area, Level P) 19:30-22:30 WELCOME RECEPTIONAND DINNER BUFFET (AZUR POOL)

ENTERTAINMENT: MARIMBA Band (music from Southern Mexico; performances at 20:00 and 21:30)

21:00-21:15 OPENING CEREMONY (AZUR)

Angelo Marcelli (Salerno, Italy) IGS President Arend Van Gemmert (Baton Rouge, USA), IGS President-Elect Pepe Contreras-Vidal (College Park, USA) Chair, IGS2011

15th IGS2011INTERNATIONAL GRAPHONOMICS SOCIETY CONFERENCE Live Aqua Cancun – Mexico

June 12−15, 2011

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Monday June 13th

06:30-09:00 Breakfast buffet (at your own, choose room service or SIETE

RESTAURANT)

MEETING ROOM AQUA 1

07:30-08:30 Registration(Space AQUA FOYER) 08:30-09:30 PLENARY SESSION: (SPONSORED BY G.TEC)

Mikhail Lebedev, Duke University Center for Neuroengineering “Brain-Machine Interfaces: From Locomotion to Fine Hand Movements”

09:30-10:30 CONTRIBUTED SESSION (Chair: Angelo Marcelli)

MOVEMENT NEUROSCIENCE 09:30-09:50 Improvements of Movement Performance as Result of Bilateral

Transfer of Learning. ArendVan GEMMERT (Louisiana State University, USA)

09:50-10:10 Generalization of dynamic adaptation between bilateral and

unilateral movement conditions. Jinsung WANG (University of Wisconsin, USA)

10:10-10:30 Characterizing synergies of grasping in the human hand.

Harsha AGASHE (University of Maryland, USA) 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break and POSTER presentations (AQUA FOYER) 11:00-12:00 CONTRIBUTED SESSION (Chair: RéjeanPlamondon) BRAIN-MIND-MACHINES I 11:00-11:20 EOG-based mouse with BCI technology applying Empirical

Mode Decomposition and DWT. Juan RAMIREZ (National Institute of Astrophysics, Mexico)

11:20-11:40 Decoding finger movements from brain activity acquired via

scalp electroencephalography. Andrew PAEK (University of Maryland, USA)

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11:40-12:00 Online Mode Detection for Pen-Enabled Multi-Touch Interfaces. WEBER (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany)

12:00-13:30 LUNCH BUFFET ON YOUR OWN (Choose: AZUR OR SIETE

RESTAURANT) 12:00-13:30 IGS BOARD MEETING (AZUR RESTAURANT) 13:30-15:30 CONTRIBUTED SESSION (Chair: Arend Van Gemmert) COMPUTATIONAL MODELS 13:30-13:50 Neurohand: A neural algorithm for solving the inverse

Kinematic redundancy. Marina BELTRAN-BLANCO (Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain)

13:50-14:10 From Motor to Trajectory Plan: A feedback loop between

unfolding and segmentation to improve writing order recovery. Rosa SENATORE (University of Salerno, Italy)

14:10-14:30 Experimental Confirmation of the Proportional Effect

Hypothesis of the Kinematic Theory of Rapid Movements. Réjean PLAMONDON (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

14:30-14:50 The Coupling of Agonist and Antagonist Commands in

Speed/Accuracy Tradeoff. Christian O’REILLY (Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada)

14:50-15:10 Synthetic handwritten gesture generation using sigma-

lognormal model for evolving handwriting classifiers. Abdullah ALMAKSOUR (INSA de Rennes, France)

15:10-15:30 Decoding volitional three-dimensional hand movement

direction from EEG. T. GARCIA (Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain)

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break and POSTER presentations (AQUA FOYER) 16:00-17:00 CONTRIBUTED SESSION (Chair: Pepe Contreras-Vidal) FORENSIC SCIENCE IN ART

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16:00-16:20 Exploiting Page Layout Features for Scribe Distinction in Medieval Manuscripts. Claudio De STEFANO (University of Cassino, Italy)

16:20-16:40 How age, culture and manual dominance determine

directionality in profile-drawings. Annie VINTER (Universite de Bourgogne, France)

16:40-17:00 A forensic handwriting examination of manuscripts attributed

to Johann Sebastian and Anna Magdalena. Martin JARVIS (Charles Darwin University, Australia)

17:00-19:00 FREE TIME. ENJOY CANCUN. MEET NEW FRIENDS. 19:00- DINNER (Select from the various restaurants at Aqua)

EXHIBITIONS AND CONTRIBUTED POSTERS June 13-15, 2011

08:00-17:00 EXHIBITIONS and CONTRIBUTED POSTERS (AQUA FOYER) The IGS Board would like to thank the following EXHIBITORS for their support

and sponsorship of the IGS 2011 Conference EXHIBITORS Brain Vision LCC (http://www.brainvision.com )

Full-service solutions for neurophysiological research including EEG/ERP soft- & hardware, EEG and fMRI compatible equipment, stimulation devices and accessories. Patrick Blitz (Morrisville, USA)

g.tec Medical Engineering (http://www.gtec.at ) g.tec developed the first commercially available BCI system in 1999 and now sells this system in more than 60 countries worldwide. Our products work with all major BCI approaches (motor imagery, P300, SSVEP and slow cortical potentials), so you can start BCI research within a few hours. Christoff GUGER (Graz, Austria)

As part of the exhibition, GTECH will present a brain-computer interface (BCI) workshop on June 14th 13:30-15:30 and June 15th 13:30-15:30. Pre-registration (indicate preferred date) is

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required. Please see: http://www.gtec.at/News-Events/Workshops/BCI-Workshop-in-Cancun-Mexico.

Quasar (http://www.quasarusa.com/). QUASAR is a leader in non-invasive physiological signal monitoring. Their easy-to-use wireless Dry Sensor Interface (DSI) EEG headset and ECG belt systems available for your research applications. For more information on QUASAR technology or to contact them, please visit www.quasarusa.com POSTERS: (NOTE: Posters will be displayed June 13-15 noon). Please remove posters by June 15, 13:00

P1: Prediction of Psychophysical Laws with the Beta-Elliptic Model. Hala BEZINE (National School of Engineers of Sfax, Tunisia) P2: Analysis of Shorthand Alphabets in Pen-Centric Handwriting Interfaces. Charles TAPPERT (Pace University, USA) P3: Surprising power of local features for automated signature verification. Marcus LIWICKI (University of Bern, Switzerland) P4: Learning an Indian biguda Script: Bangla. Bidyut CHAUDHURI (Indian Statistical Institute, INDIA) P5: Evaluation of a remedial handwriting program for print legibility. Catherine CANDLER (Texas Woman’s University, USA) P6: Procedural Description of Drawing Activity. Céline REMI (Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, France). P7: Temporal and Spatial Differences Between Online and Offline Signatures. Heidi HARRALSON (Tucson, USA) P8: Adaptive Inverse Modelling in the Frontal Mirror Neuron System for Action Imitation. Hyuk OH (University of Maryland, MD) P9: Are dysgraphic children really slower than proficient handwriters?Vietminh Paz VILLAGRAN (UMR CNRS 6193)

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P10:Biological-Inspired Approach to Detect Contours from Noisy Images. Carlos DIAZ-HERNANDEZ (Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Spain) P11: Forensic examination of the writing of a man with multiple personalities. Bonnie SCHWID (Anagraphics, WI) P12: A neural network model for complex handwriting Generation movements. Mahmoud LTAIEF (National School of Engineers of Sfax, Tunisia)

Poster/exhibit/workshop area Oral presentations

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Tuesday June 14th

06:30-09:00 Breakfast buffet (select from room service or SIETE

RESTAURANT)

MEETING ROOM AQUA 1

07:30-08:30 Registration (Space AQUA FOYER) 08:30-09:30 PLENARY SESSION: (SPONSORED BY BRAIN VISION LLC)

Marc H. Schieber, Professor of Neurology and of Neurobiology, University of Rochester, and Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit at Unity Health, Rochester, NY “Changing Circuits that Control the Fingers: Dissociating Motor Cortex from the Motor”

09:30-12:00 SPECIAL SESSION (Chair: Angelo Marcelli)

BRAIN-MACHINE INTERFACES (BMI) FOR DEXTEROUS MOVEMENT CONTROL

09:30-09:40 Providing sensory feedback through intracortical

microstimulation for upper limb neuroprostheses. Sliman BENSMAIA(Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, USA)

09:40-09:50 Sensorimotor integration for the control of grasp kinematics

and kinetics: potential applications to BMI. Marco SANTELLO (Arizona State University, USA)

09:50-10:00 What of Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMI) can be left to non-

cortical and peripheral processes?Francisco VALERO-CUEVAS (University of Southern California, USA)

10:00-10:10 Do cortical gamma responses reflect cognitive-motor

information encoding of fine motor tasks? Nathan CRONE (Johns Hopkins University, USA)

10:10-10:20 What are the ‘units’ for noninvasive decoding of fine dexterous

movements? Pepe CONTRERAS-VIDAL (University of Maryland, USA)

10:20-10:40 Coffee Break and POSTER presentations (AQUA FOYER)

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10:40-10:50 Is it possible to facilitate BMI learning by non-invasive brain

stimulation? Surjo SOEKADAR (University of Tübingen, Germany and Human Cortical Physiology and Stroke Neurorehabilitation Section of the National Institutes of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke, USA)

10:50-11:00 What information is contained in the brain’s ‘noise’ that could

be harnessed by BMI? Christopher GUGER (g.tech, Austria) 11:00-12:00 SPECIAL SESSION DISCUSSION FORUM MODERATORS: Mikhail LEBEDEV, Duke University Marc H. SCHIEBER, University of Rochester Ranulfo ROMO, National Autonomous University of Mexico 12:00-13:30 LUNCH BUFFET ON YOUR OWN (Choose: AZUR OR SIETE

RESTAURANT) 13:30-15:30 CONTRIBUTED SESSION (Chair: Arend Van Gemmert) FORENSIC SCIENCE, HANDWRITING AND DRAWING 13:30-13:50 Dynamic signature features from static greyscale information.

Richard GUEST (University of Kent, UK) 13:50-14:10 Forensic Requirements for Automated Handwriting Analysis

Systems. Reinier VERDUIJN (Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Netherlands)

14:10-14:30 A cognitive look into simulations of high and low complexity

signatures. Avni PEPE(La Trobe University, Australia). 14:30-14:50 Dominant points for spatio-graphic and procedural analysis of

online drawings. Céline REMI (Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, France).

14:50-15:10 Validating Features for Inferring Handwriting Speed from

Static Trace. Emily WILL (Q.D.E.Will, USA) 15:10-15:30 The influence of a quill pen on a scribe's ability to accurately

copy a music manuscript. Martin JARVIS (Charles Darwin University, Australia)

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15:30-16:00 Coffee Break and POSTER presentations (AQUA FOYER) 16:00-17:00 CONTRIBUTED SESSION (Chair: Annie Vinter) HANDWRITING ANALYSIS AND TECHNOLOGY 16:00-16:20 MokkAnnotator - An Annotation Tool to Accumulate and

Organize Mokkans. Truyen PHAN (Tokyo University of Technology & Agriculture, Japan)

16:20-16:40 Segmenting isolated characters within cursive words. Angelo.

MARCELLI (University of Salerno, Italy) 16:40-17:00 Age-related changes in executive control and their

relationships with handwriting performance. Sara ROSENBLUM (University of Haifa, Israel)

17:00-20:00 FREE TIME. ENJOY CANCUN. MEET NEW FRIENDS. 20:00-22:30 BANQUET (Beach area)

ENTERTAINMENT: MARIACHI Band (Traditional music from Western Mexico; performances at 20:30 and 21:30)

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Wednesday June 15th

06:30-09:00 Breakfast buffet (select from room service or SIETE

RESTAURANT)

MEETING ROOM AQUA 1

07:30-08:30 Registration (Space AQUA FOYER) 08:30-09:30 PLENARY SESSION:

Ranulfo Romo, Institute of Cellular Physiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico “Conversion of sensory signals into decision making”

09:30-10:30 CONTRIBUTED SESSION (Chair: Elisa Van den HEUVEL)

MOVEMENT NEUROSCIENCE II 09:30-09:50 Functions of the basal ganglia system for cognitive and motor

tasks. Raymond CHONG (Georgia Health Sciences University, USA)

09:50-10:10 The macrostructure of rest tremor in Parkinson's disease.

Shikha PRASHAD (University of Maryland, USA) 10:10-10:30 Development of cross-modal Interactions in School-Aged

Children. Florian KAGERER(Michigan State University, USA) 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break and POSTER presentations (AQUA FOYER) 11:00-12:00 CONTRIBUTED SESSION (Chair: Rejean Plamondon) FORENSIC SCIENCES II 11:00-11:20 A Case Study Using the CEDAR FOX System for Forensic

Handwriting Verification and Identification. Reinier VERDUIJN (Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Netherlands)

11:20-11:40 Dynamic features of naturally written, disguised and forged

handwritten text. Carolyne BIRD (La Trobe University, Australia)

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11:40-12:00 The Relation Between Signature Complexity and the Perceived Quality of Signature Simulations. Elisa Van Den HEUVEL (Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Netherlands)

12:00-13:30 LUNCH BUFFET ON YOUR OWN (Choose: AZUR OR SIETE

RESTAURANT) 12:00-13:30 IGS BOARD MEETING (AZUR RESTAURANT) 13:30-15:30 CONTRIBUTED SESSION (Chair: Arend Van Gemmert) HANDWRITING ANALYSIS 13:30-13:50 Determining Cursive or Printed Nature of Handwritten

Samples. Sargur SRIHARI (State University of New York, USA) 13:50-14:10 Kinematic Analysis of Handwriting in Pupils of Primary and

Secondary School. Mariangela GENNA (Università di Trieste, Italy)

14:10-14:30 Handwriting in children with autism and Asperger's disorder. Beth JOHNSON (Monash University, Australia)

14:30-14:50 Handwriting in children with attention deficit hyperactivity

disorder. Beth JOHNSON(Monash University, Australia) 14:50-15:10 Developmental study of graphic coordination dynamics.

JérémyDANNA (Universite Paul Sabatier,France) 15:10-15:30 Does motor compatibility influence the grouping of upper case

handwritten letters?Aurelie LAGARRIGUE (Universite de la Mediterrane, France)

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break and POSTER presentations (AQUA FOYER) 16:00-17:00 CONTRIBUTED SESSION (Chair: Masaki Nakagawa) BRAIN-MIND-MACHINES II 16:00-16:20 Towards an inked-enabled handwriting editor. Hala BEZINE

(National School of Engineers of Sfax, Tunisia) 16:20-16:40 Evaluation of Continuous Marking Menus for Learning Cursive

Pen-based Command. Peiyu LI (Université Européenne de Bretagne, France)

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16:40-17:00 The Ponzo Illusion affects movement characteristics in

memory guided target aiming movements. Mitchell LONGSTAFF (Southern Cross University, Australia)

17:00-17:15 CLOSING CEREMONY

Angelo Marcelli (Salerno, Italy) IGS President Arend Van Gemmert (Baton Rouge, USA), IGS President-Elect Pepe Contreras-Vidal (College Park, USA) Chair, IGS2011