Background: An advantageous property of behavioural signals (e.g. handwriting), in contrast to morphological ones, such as iris, fingerprint, hand geometry, etc., is the possibility to ask a user for a very rich amount of different tasks.Methods: This article summarises recent findings and applications of different handwriting/drawing tasks in the field of security and health. More specifically, it is focused on on-line handwriting and hand-based interaction, i.e. signals that utilise a digitizing device (specific devoted or general-purpose tablet/smartphone) during the realization of the tasks. Such devices permit the acquisition of onsurface dynamics as well as in-air movements in time, thus providing complex and richer information when compared to the conventional "pen and paper" method.Conclusions: Although the scientific literature reports a wide range of tasks and applications, in this paper, we summarize only those providing competitive results (e.g. in terms of discrimination power) and having a significant impact in the field.
KeywordsDrawing • Online handwriting • Signature • Tasks • Touch Dynamics 1 Introduction Signature/handwriting recognition can be split into two categories: off-line and online [2, 24, 90]. In the former case, just the result of the signature/writing (i.e. static