DUAL-T User Testing Dataset

The file

This file contains keylogging data from 21 professional literary translators, who translated three short stories in three different workflows. Data was collected between October 2023 and January 2024.

Participants

Participants have been assigned codes from P01 to P23. Originally, there were 24 participants, however logs for P04a, P09, and P20 had to be excluded from analysis due to technical errors, so they are not present in the spreadsheet.

Workflows

The workflows were:

WF01: Microsoft Word

WF02: Trados Studio 2022

WF03: Machine-Translation Postediting Platform (proprietary tool, not available on the market)

Participants had access to an internet browser (Chrome) for all three conditions.

Source texts

The texts used for the experiments were taken from the short story collection One More Thing, by BJ Novak (2014). The three short stories used are:

T01: Rome

T02: The Beautiful Girl in the Bookstore

T03: They Kept Driving Faster and They Outrun the Rain

The keylogging data

Keylogging data was collected using Inputlog 8.0.0.17 (https://www.inputlog.net/)

The data available in the spreadsheet includes:

• Translation time (hh:mm:ss)
• Translation time (s)
• Translation time (m)
• Total n keystrokes
• Total n mouse actions
• Total n pauses
• Pause duration (s)
• Mean duration of pauses (s)
• Pause ratio
• Time spent inside tool (s)
• Time spent outside tool (s)
• Source text n words
• Source text n characters
• Target text n words
• Target text n characters
• Seconds per source text character