McKinley-Burnstein Handwriting Analyzer

OVERVIEW

At last, quick and accurate handwriting analysis on your PalmPilot.
This program is based on the seminal 1997 research paper by
J.R. McKinley and R. Burnstein which describes a method for using
digitized signatures to drive a powerful analysis engine.  The
McKinley-Burnstein Handwriting Analyzer (MBHA) offers professional
quality handwriting analysis on your PalmPilot, including features
normally only found on high end PC based programs; such as slant
normalization, descender compression, and spacing reduction.

INSTALLATION

Follow the standard PalmPilot installation procedure for MBHA:

First, unzip MBHA.ZIP somewhere on your PC or Mac. Then from Windows,
run the PALMPILOT INSTALL TOOL program which will be in the same group as
your PalmPilot Desktop application. When the install dialog comes up, click
on the BROWSE button and navigate to the directory where you unzipped the
MBHA.PRC file. Select MBHA.PRC by double-clicking it in the FILE
OPEN dialog and then click on the INSTALL button. On the next HotSync, the
MBHA application will appear in your list of applications.

OPERATION

On starting MBHA you are presented with two buttons, Analyze and
Information. Click Information to get some information about the
program and algorithms used for handwriting analysis.  When finished
click Done and you will return to the starting screen. Click Analyze
to begin the handwriting analysis process.

Analyze takes you to the setup menu, which asks that you check boxes
to select the parameters to be used for analysis.  The questions are:

Hand:		X Right	X Left

Click on the check box for Right if you are writing right handed, or
left if you are writing left handed.

Gender:		X Male	X Female

Click on the check box for male if you are a male, or female if you
are a female.  If you don't know your gender click male.

X Enable Descender Compression

Click on this box to enable descender correction, which tends to
correct for skew in the results introduces by long tails on letters
which have descenders, such as y, p, and q.  This should generally be
checked.

X Enable Spacing Reduction

This box minimized excess space between letters, it should generally
be checked.

X Enable Slant Normalization

This box normalizes letter slant to vertical, this box should almost
always be checked for left handers, and generaly for right handers.

X Registered user of ThisWeek, DailyTracker, HandiGolf, or PalmChord.

This box should be checked if you are a registered user of any of my
shareware programs.  Results of the analysis will be significantly
more pleasant if this box is checked.  In case you didn't know, this
is the give away that this program is a goof.  Use it to mess with
your friends (or enemies) - just don't show them this documentation.

SUPPORT

For support of MBHA contact reesley@reesley.com