| Publication type: | Conference other |
| Type of review: | Not specified |
| Title: | An ergonomic comparison of translation tool interfaces |
| Authors: | Kappus, Martin Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen |
| et. al: | No |
| Proceedings: | Book of abstracts : EST congress 2019 |
| Page(s): | 128 |
| Conference details: | 9th Congress of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST 2019), Stellenbosch, South Africa, 9 - 13 September 2019 |
| Issue Date: | 2019 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Stellenbosch University |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Translator-computer interface; Usability; CAT tools; Language technology |
| Subject (DDC): | 410.285: Computational linguistics 418.02: Translating and interpreting |
| Abstract: | Technology has become so much a part of the translation workplace that few professional translators would be comfortable working without access to the internet, online dictionaries, termbases and/or CAT tools. The latter have contributed to higher consistency and productivity, but recent research suggests that there is potential for improvement in ergonomic terms (e.g. Ehrensberger-Dow et al. 2016; O’Brien et al. 2017; Teixeira & O’Brien 2017). Examples from our corpus of workplace and classroom recordings include repetitive reformatting of source files and complicated work-arounds to accomplish tasks that could be automated by using macros and changing the default settings. Other examples from self-report data relate to apparent overload of cognitive resources by the amount of information presented on crowded screens. The tasks of translating with TM, selecting matches from a variety of sources and post-editing MT are merging in many professional contexts, so it is imperative to develop ways to best prepare students for working seamlessly between both modalities (cf. Krüger 2018). In this presentation, we report on a usability comparison of two translation tool interfaces that differ with respect to the amount of information and number of functions available on the screen. One of the interfaces has several fields with supporting functions visible, and the other has a simpler look. Quantitative measures from eye tracking and qualitative indicators from retrospective commentaries and interviews highlight how MA students interact with the two interfaces. We consider the implications of our findings in light of cognitive, physical and organizational ergonomics in order to open the discussion of whether ergonomic conditions can be more efficiently reduced by limiting the options available to the translator or by identifying and applying individualized settings for any given user. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/18882 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Translation and Interpreting (IUED) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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Kappus, M., & Ehrensberger-Dow, M. (2019). An ergonomic comparison of translation tool interfaces [Conference presentation]. Book of Abstracts : EST Congress 2019, 128.
Kappus, M. and Ehrensberger-Dow, M. (2019) ‘An ergonomic comparison of translation tool interfaces’, in Book of abstracts : EST congress 2019. Stellenbosch University, p. 128.
M. Kappus and M. Ehrensberger-Dow, “An ergonomic comparison of translation tool interfaces,” in Book of abstracts : EST congress 2019, 2019, p. 128.
KAPPUS, Martin und Maureen EHRENSBERGER-DOW, 2019. An ergonomic comparison of translation tool interfaces. In: Book of abstracts : EST congress 2019. Conference presentation. Stellenbosch University. 2019. S. 128
Kappus, Martin, and Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow. 2019. “An Ergonomic Comparison of Translation Tool Interfaces.” Conference presentation. In Book of Abstracts : EST Congress 2019, 128. Stellenbosch University.
Kappus, Martin, and Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow. “An Ergonomic Comparison of Translation Tool Interfaces.” Book of Abstracts : EST Congress 2019, Stellenbosch University, 2019, p. 128.
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