REPLAYING A USER LOGFILE AND PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS

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1 REPLAYING A USER LOGFILE AND PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS Center for Research and Innovation in Translation and Translation Technology, Copenhagen Business School compiled by Katarzyna Stachowiak

2 1. Open TRANSLOG II Supervisor. CLICK OPEN LOG FILE TO OPEN A FILE GENERATED BY A USER OPENING A LOG FILE WILL ENABLE YOU TO SEE ALL THE SUBJECT S ACTIONS REPLAYED YOU CAN CHOOSE WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE ON THE SCREEN THIS PANEL CONTAINS PLAY, PAUSE, FORWARD AND REWIND BUTTONS CHOOSE THE SPEED YOU WANT TO SEE Y O U R DATA AT (A). YOU CAN ALSO GO TO A GIVEN POINT IN THE RECORDING (B). ONCE YOU TRY TO CLOSE THE MAIN WINDOW, A POP-UP WINDOW WILL APPEAR ASKING IF YOU WANT TO QUIT THE REPLAY SESSION. CLICK YES IF YOU ARE DONE. Yes No DO NOT CLOSE THE REPLAY SESSION IF YOU WANT TO USE ANY ANALYSIS TOOLS IN THE SUPERVISOR MODE. GO TO THE NEXT PAGE TO LEARN ABOUT TOOLS. 1

3 [LOGFILE NAME.XML] A B C D TOOLS CONTAIN A NUMBER OF FUNCTIONS ENABLING YOU TO GET THE FIRST IMPRESSION ABOUT THE RECORDING ANALYSED. REMEMBER TO KEEP THE LOG FILE WINDOW OPEN. OTHERWISE YOU WILL NOT ABLE TO ENTER ANY TOOLS A Y O U CA N C H O O S E THE COLOURS OF PARTICULAR SYMBOLS BY CLICKING ON THE SETTINGS ICON LINEAR VIEW PRESENTS ALL THE EXPERIMENTEE S ACTIVITIES IN THE CHRONILOGICAL ORDER AND MAPS THEM OUT BY MEANS OF SYMBOLS LINEAR VIEW SYMBOLS EXPLAINED: 1 pause unit you can de ne manually using the window next to Pause unit on menu bar BACK SPACE These two signs indicate a mouse activity and stand for clicking on a particular place on the screen, most frequently to start writing. cursor activities, FORWARD, BACK, UP AND DOWN, respectively [...] Keyboard activities are speci ed in square brackets, e.g. [DELETE] stands for pressing the DELETEbutton, and [CTRL+C] stands for pressing CONTROL and C simultaneously (copying) {...} Gaze activities are speci ed in braces, e.g. {1*: Air France} means that the subject looked at the words Air France in the text, located in the source window*. * Number 1 stands for source text window and number 2 stands for target text window. 2

4 THE PAUSE GRAPH PRESENTS T H E PR O G R E S S O F T E XT PRODUCTION. IT MAPS OUT THE USER S ACTIVITIES VS. PAUSES. THE BLUE DOTS S TA N D F O R A N A C T I V I TY (EITHER GAZE OR TYPING). THE GRAPHEMES TYPED ARE DISPLAYED HORIZONTALLY, WHILE THE VERTICAL LINE SHOWS THE DURATION OF THE SUBJECT S PAUSES. B pause uent typing THE PAUSE GRAPH WILL B E M O S T I N F O R M AT I V E WHEN ONLY KEY STROKES AND PAUSES ARE ANALYSED IF YOU CLICK THIS ICON: THE LINEAR AND PAUSE VIEWS WILL BE SYNCHRONISED WITH THE REPLAY WINDOW. YOU WILL SEE CHANGES OCCURRING SIMULTANEOUSLY IN ALL THE WINDOWS. SELECT STATISTICS TO SEE THE PRELIMINARY STATISTICAL DATA CONCERNING A SUBJECT S ACTIVITY. LOGFILE INFORMATION TAB CONTAINS THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROJECT THAT WAS USED FOR THE EXPERIMENT. C 3

5 D S E TT I N G S E N A B L E Y O U TO DEF I NE TH E I N I TI A L S PEE D A N D F O N T. TH E VA L U E S I N S E R T E D I N : REWIND/ FAST FORWA RD INTERVAL INFORMS YOU HOW MANY SECONDS YOU MOVE BACK OR FORWARD WHENEVER YOU PRESS THERE ARROWS: SETTIN IN A REPLAY SESSION. eye GAZE MAPPING REPLAY MODES mode REFRESH IN THE REFRESH MODE YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE SUBJECT LOOKED AT ONE PARTICULAR MOMENT mode COLLECT IN THE COLLECT MODE YOU CAN SEE THE SEQUENCE OF SUBJECT S GAZES 4

6 mode FIX MAP FIXATIONS AND FIXATION-TO-WORD MAPPING MAY SOMETIMES BE NOISY AND ERROR-PRONE. THE FIXMAP MODE ALLOWS YOU TO MANUALLY ATTRIBUTE THE FIXATION TO A SPECIFIC WORD. CHOOSE FIX MAP CTRL+RIGHT = ONE GAZE FORWARD THE VIOLET RECTANGLES SAVE THE GAZE DATA. LET S SAY YOU WANT TO CORRECT NUMBER 13 AS YOU THINK A USERLOOKED AT MAKE, NOT AT SEEMS LIKE HOW TO CORRECT THE MAPPING MANUALLY? IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE A WORD MAPPING CLICK ON THE WORD YOU WANT TO ATTACH THE GAZE TO AND PRESS ENTER. THE WORD WILL BE MARKED DIFFERENT COLOUR THAN THE ORIGINAL MAPPING AND THE CHANGES WILL BE SAVED ALSO IN THE XML DOC. GO TO THE DATA ANALYSIS MANUAL TO SEE HOW TO TO DEAL WITH THE XML DATA AND HOW TO CORRECT ANY LOGGING MISTAKES AND INCONSISTENCIES MANUALLY 5