Written Assessments with Digital Ink

This paper proposes the use of digital ink, along with task analysis techniques as an enhanced method to assess individuals. The use of digital ink for evaluation purposes allows access to additional data, beyond the actual written answers. Such information may be used to complement and enrich assessments, as well as allowing automatic data analysis techniques to be used on the stored data. This work presents a tool that allows digital ink traces to be captured, stored and reproduced. The tool was used to implement two applications in the psychology domain. A second research phase proposes the application of task analysis on the trace data.