MATLAB provides a powerful environment for rapid prototyping of research methods and techniques. Across the wide range of on-line pen computing applications there exists a series of common methods for the capture, storage, manipulation and measurement of handwritten data which are used as the basis for novel research and system architecture implementation. This paper outlines a new opensource Toolkit for the MATLAB programming environment containing routines and data structures to perform common functionality manipulating `on-line' hand drawing and writing data captured in the form of a time series sequence. The routines provide capture device interrogation, feature extraction and data manipulation, enabling full integration within MATLAB, thereby providing an extensible platform for experimentation and research.
Richard M. Guest