Blending Tradition with Innovation: An Interactive Tutoring in Handwriting Islamic Calligraphy

The most popular way of learning Islamic calligraphy is face-to-face, under the supervision of teachers, tutors or trainers. However, finding an expert to teach handwriting Islamic calligraphy is difficult. Therefore, this paper proposed an interactive tutoring in handwriting Islamic calligraphy framework, namely the I-HATIC framework, as a guideline for designing and developing tutoring applications specifically for handwriting Islamic calligraphy. The tutoring application based on the proposed I-HATIC framework describes how human and computer interaction creates good calligraphy or style handwriting in interactive ways. It is motivated by the lack of a well-trained trainer teaching handwriting Islamic calligraphy. This paper discusses the existing frameworks, theoretical foundations, issues, and trends related to handwriting Islamic calligraphy. As a result, the proposed I-HATIC framework can be a guideline in producing up-and-coming handwriting Islamic calligraphy tutoring applications to attract more young generations to explore Islamic calligraphy and solve the problems of limited welltrained trainers.