Translog-Ⅱ: a Program for Recording User Activity Data for Empirical Reading and Writing Research

摘要

This paper presents a novel implementation of Translog-Ⅱ. Translog-Ⅱ is a Windows-oriented program to record and study reading and writing processes on a computer. In our research, it is an instrument to acquire objective, digital data of human translation processes. As their predecessors, Translog 2000 and Translog 2006, also Translog-Ⅱ consists of two main components: Translog-Ⅱ Supervisor and Translog-Ⅱ User, which are used to create a project file, to run a text production experiments (a user reads, writes or translates a text) and to replay the session. Translog produces a log files which contains all user activity data of the reading, writing, or translation session, and which can be evaluated by external tools. While there is a large body of translation process research based on Translog, this paper gives an overview of the Translog-Ⅱ functions and its data visualization options.