PhDr. Katarína Zvončáková, Ph.D.

Institute of Psychology
The Czech Academy of Sciences
Veveří 97
602 00 Brno
Phone: +420 532 290 283
E-mail: zvoncakova@psu.cas.cz

Research Interests

• graphomotor skills
• graphomotor disorders
• development of diagnostic methods
• interdisciplinary research in the field of graphonomics

Education

• 2019 PhDr.
  Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republi
• 2013 - 2018 Ph.D.
  Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
• 2007 - 2013 Master
  Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Research Stay

• 05 – 07/2017 University of Essex, Department of Psychology, United Kingdom
  Programe: Erasmus + Traineeship

Work Career

• 2022 – present: Postdoc, Department of Research Methodology, Institute of Psychology, CAS
• 2022 – present: Assistant professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, MUNI
• 2016 – 2022: Assistant professor, Institute of social sciences, Brno University of Technology
• 2014 – 2016: Crisis intervention, Helpline STŘED SD

Teaching Activities

• 2023 – present: Lecturer/seminar tutor – Research in Educational practice, MUNI
• 2022 – present: Seminar tutor – Developmental psychology, MUNI
• 2013 – 2017: Seminar tutor – Psychodiagnostics Practice, MUNI
• 2015 – 2021: Seminar tutor – Practice empirical research I. and II., MUNI
• 2019 – 2021: Lecturer – Psychology constructs: Theory and Methodology, MUNI

Projects

• 2020 – 2024 TAČR ÉTA
  TL03000287: Software for advanced diagnostics of graphomotor issues
  Project team member – postdoc; Institute of Psychology CAS
• 2018 – 2020 GAČR Standard project
  18-16835S: Research of advanced developmental dysgraphia diagnosis and rating methods based on quantitative analysis of online handwriting and drawing
  Project team member – researcher; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts MUNI

Selected Publications

• Šafárová, K., Mekyska, J., & Zvončák, V. (2021). Developmental Dysgraphia: A New
  Approach to Diagnosis. The International Journal of Assessment and Evaluation. Common
  Ground Research Networks, 1, 143-160.
  https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-7920/CGP/v28i01/143-160
• Šafárová, K., Mekyska, J., Zvončák, V., Galáž, Z., Francová, P., Čechová, B., ... & Rosenblum,
  S. (2020). Psychometric Properties of Screening Questionnaires for Children
  With Handwriting Issues. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 2937.
  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02937
• Mucha, J., Mekyska, J., Galaz, Z., Faundez-Zanuy, M., Zvoncak, V., Safarova, K., ... &
  Smekal, Z. (2020). Analysis of Various Fractional Order Derivatives Approaches in
  Assessment of Graphomotor Difficulties. IEEE Access, 8, 218234-218244.
  https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3042591
• Galaz, Z., Mucha, J., Zvoncak, V., Mekyska, J., Smekal, Z., Safarova, K., ... & Faundez-
  Zanuy, M. (2020). Advanced parametrization of graphomotor difficulties in schoolaged
  children. IEEE Access, 8, 112883-112897.
  https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3003214
• Mekyska, J., Galaz, Z., Safarova, K., Zvoncak, V., Mucha, J., Smekal, Z., ... & Faundez-
  Zanuy, M. (2019, October). Computerised assessment of graphomotor difficulties in a
  cohort of school-aged children. In 2019 11th International Congress on Ultra Modern
  Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
  https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUMT48472.2019.8970767
• Zvoncak, V., Mucha, J., Galaz, Z., Mekyska, J., Safarova, K., Faundez-Zanuy, M., &
  Smekal, Z. (2019, October). Fractional order derivatives evaluation in computerized
  assessment of handwriting difficulties in school-aged children. In 2019 11th International
  Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and
  Workshops (ICUMT) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
  https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUMT48472.2019.8970811
• Šafárová, K., Pírko, M., Juřík, V., Pavlica, T., & Németh, O. (2019). Differences between
  young architects’ and non-architects’ aesthetic evaluation of buildings. Frontiers of
  Architectural Research, 8(2), 229-237.
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2019.04.001
• Zvoncak, V., Mekyska, J., Safarova, K., Smekal, Z., & Brezany, P. (2019, May). New
  approach of dysgraphic handwriting analysis based on the tunable Q-Factor wavelet
  transform. In 2019 42nd International Convention on Information and Communication
  Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO) (pp. 289-294). IEEE.
  https://doi.org/10.23919/MIPRO.2019.8756872
• Zvoncak, V., Mekyska, J., Safarova, K., Galaz, Z., Mucha, J., Kiska, T., ... & Rosenblum, S.
  (2018, November). Effect of stroke-level intra-writer normalization on computerized
  assessment of developmental dysgraphia. In 2018 10th International Congress on
  Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT) (pp.
  1-5). IEEE. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICUMT.2018.8631271