Evaluating the effects of interactivity in a post-editing workbench
Nancy L. Underwood, Bartolomé Mesa-Lao, Mercedes García Martínez, Michaël Carl, Vicent Alabau, Jesús González-Rubio, Luis A. Leiva, Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Francisco Casacuberta · 2014
This paper describes the field trial and subsequent evaluation of a post-editing workbench which is currently under development in the EU-funded CasMaCat project.Based on user evaluations of the initial prototype of the workbench, this second prototype of the workbench includes a number of interactive features designed to improve productivity and user satisfaction.Using CasMaCat's own facilities for logging keystrokes and eye tracking, data were collected from nine post-editors in a professional setting.These data were then used to investigate the effects of the interactive features on productivity, quality, user satisfaction and cognitive load as reflected in the post-editors' gaze activity.These quantitative results are combined with the qualitative results derived from user questionnaires and interviews conducted with all the participants.