Eye tracking in translation process research: methodological challenges and solutions
Eye tracking in translation process research: methodological challenges and solutions
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翻译过程研究中的眼动追踪：方法挑战和解决方案
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2009
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Sharon O’Brien
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作者：
Sharon O’Brien
近年来，眼动追踪技术在翻译过程研究中得到了广泛的应用，随之而来的是一长串方法上的挑战，这些挑战有的针对翻译过程研究，有的则更为普遍。这篇论文代表了最近一名转向眼动追踪的尝试，以记录各种挑战，并为其他有兴趣接受这种非常有趣的调查模式的人如何解决其中的一些问题提供建议。很难只评论与眼动追踪相关的挑战，而不提及与翻译过程研究领域中更一般的研究设计问题有关的问题，因为两者不可避免地联系在一起。通过强调挑战，不可避免地暴露了研究设计的弱点。然而，这不应该被消极地看待，而应该被看作是提高综合研究产出质量的一种手段，目的是使该领域成熟。
Eye tracking has been eagerly adopted as a technique in translation process research in recent years and, with it, comes a long list of methodological challenges, some of which are specific to translation process research, some of which are more general. This paper represents an attempt by a recent convert to eye tracking to document the various challenges and to offer suggestions for how some of them might be addressed by others who are interested in embracing this very interesting mode of investigation. It is difficult to comment only on those challenges related to eye tracking without mentioning issues that pertain to the more general questions of research design in the domain of translation process research as the two are inevitably linked. By highlighting challenges, one is inevitably exposing research design weaknesses. However, this should not be viewed negatively but should rather be seen as a means of improving the quality of combined research outputs with the aim of maturing the domain.
This paper is broadly divided into two parts: the first discusses the methodological challenges, which in turn are divided into the categories of research environment, research participants, ethics, data explosion and validity. Each section is then repeated in the second part of the paper, which offers suggestions on how the challenges might be addressed.