The Use of Simple Dimensional Measurements in the Analysis of Simulated Signatures: A Preliminary Study

The ability of participants to simulate the width, height, and width: height ratio of simple and complex target signatures has been explored. The natural variation of the target signatures was evaluated over 29 and 28 signatures for the simple and complex signatures respectively. A group of 20 participants were provided 12 simulations of each signature on lined and plain paper. Paired t-tests show that the complex signature was more consistently reproduced than the simple signature. Single factor Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) followed by post hoc Tukey Honestly Significant Difference (HSD) tests showed that the complex signature was more easily simulated.