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Volume 3: Issue 1
Computers, Documentation and Localisation
Author:
Leena Salmi University of Turku, Centre for Translation and Interpreting Electrocity,Tykistökatu 4 B, FIN- 20520 Turku, Finland Phone: +358 2 333 8700, Fax: +358 2 333 8730

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Pages:
83–90
Online Publication Date:
22 Jul 2005
Publication Date:
01 Apr 2002
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/Acr.3.2002.1.6
Keywords:
human-computer interaction (HCI); human-computer interaction (HCI); usability; think-aloud method; pair work; log files
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Computers have, in the last twenty years, changed from experts' machines to tools used by anyone for a variety of purposes. This shift has brought the need for translation, or localisation, of the software and documentation. The use of computer programs is studied in the field of human-computer interaction, and manufacturers make usability studies for their programs before shipping them, but research with a linguistic point of view has started only recently. The data in the usability studies is most often collected from think-aloud protocols. This paper gives some suggestions for alternative methods for collecting data in the aim of studying the use of the original and localised versions of word-processor software and its documentation. The methods include the usage of log files to provide quantitative data and pair work to provide qualitative data.

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