Translog-II

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• Translog-II  

  • • Eyelink tested it with EyeLink 1000 Plus, EyeLink 1K, and portable DUO, all works fine.

    • Tobii tested this version for Spectrum, Fusion, and Nano, and they all seem to work fine.

    • also works with our SMI 250mobile tracker

• Translog-II (version 2.24) has an Eyelink1000+ interface

  • • In some cases, running a 2 Khz frame rate might cause a few samples to be dropped.

    • regsvr32 SREyeLink.dll needs to be run as administrator if not registered during Translog-II installation.

• Translog-II (version 2.0) has the following new features:

• • Eyetracking interface with SMI (SensoMotoric Instruments) download flyer: SMI plugin for Translog-II

  • Recording of spoken language (e.g., for translation dictation, tested with dragon naturally speaking, for English and Japanese)

  • Logging keystrokes and characters with Chinese and Japanese IME. See the documentation on: Translog-II and IME

Cite:

• • Carl, Michael (2012). "Translog - II: a Program for Recording User Activity Data for Empirical Reading and Writing Research", In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Documentation

• Translog-II manual 1: Creating and modifying a project

• Translog-II manual 2: Opening and running an experiment

• Translog-II manual 3: Replaying log files

• Translog-II manual 4: Data analysis I 

• Translog-II and SMI:  SMI plugin for Translog-II  

• Translog-II and IME:  Running Translog-II experiments with Chinese and Japanese IME

• Translog-II linear view: Configure Linear view in Translog-II

More powerful analysis tools are available in the TPR-DB

Video Tutorials

• Translog-II video tutorial 1: Creating a new project

• Translog-II video tutorial 2: Opening and running an experiment with Tobii eye-tracker

• Translog-II video tutorial 3: Replaying log files

• Translog-II video tutorial 4: Data analysis

Use Translog-II with an eye-tracker and Japanese / Chinese IME

Eyetrackers produce gaze sample points1 every couple of ms, according to their sampling rate. Translog-II collects these gaze sample points and processes them in several steps:

• 1. Check whether the gaze is within the source or the target window

  2. Compute fixations based on a variant of a dispersion-based algorithm (Salvucci & Goldberg 2000)

  3. Map gaze points and fixation on the closest character on the screen

  4. Find alternative mappings in the line below and above

These steps are usually computed at runtime (and in real-time), during reading and text production. However, in particular, steps 3 and 4 are incompatible with Japanese or Chinese IME. The mechanism of character production in the IME is not accessible from within Translog-II. Trying to map gaze sample points on the characters removes the focus from the IME device which interrupts the character conversion process. However, in order to be able to map the gaze data on the Chinese or Japanese characters, the mapping steps can also be processed in a second run after a translation session is recorded. This offline gaze-to-word mapping requires four extra steps as described below:

• 1. tick the offline-mapping box in the project setup

  2. run the reading/writing/translating experiment and save the log file

  3. load the log file in a replay modus and re-run it

  4. save the log file with off-line gaze-to-word mapped information

Enable offline gaze-mapping

When generating the project, tick the box Offline Gaze Mapping. This avoids run-time gaze-to-word mapping

Run the experiment

Run the experiment and save the log file as usual. As the flag Offline Gaze Mapping is ticked, the attribute Win="-2" is automatically set in the Translog-II log file indicating that gaze-to-word mapping has to be processed offline.

Example 1: eye gaze data points in Translog-II logging file with attribute Win="-2"and Cursor="0"

Gaze-to-word mapping

For offline gaze-to-word, open the log file in the replay tool and run the entire session without interruption. You can set the speed to a higher level so as to shorten the replay duration.

During this replay session, steps 1, 2, and 3 as described above are processed offline, thus no interference with the IME. This results in a re-assignment of the window attribute (e.g., Win="1"), fixation computation, and gaze-to-word mapping. The re-computed mapping information from Example 1 is shown in Example 2, and its visualization is plotted in Figure 2.

Example 2: eye gaze data points and added fixation as computed during the re-mapping step

After the replay has come to an end, do not close the replay window. Save the file (under a different name). The log file can be saved through an option in the “Replay” drop-down menu of the Translog-II Supervisor main window. A replay of the new file will show fixations and gaze-to-word mappings, (if activated under the “Plot” drop-down menu in the replay window).

This figure shows the same segment as in the first figure above. The meaning of the visual annotations is:

• • Green dots represent gaze sample points (also shown in the first figure)

  • Blue circles are fixations, which are numbered in the order of their occurrence

  • Violet squares are mappings from the fixation centers to the closest characters

Previous Translog versions

• Translog 2006