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A PDF file of the Conference Program & Abstracts is available here.
Pre-Conference Workshops Before the start of the conference, three workshops will be offered on Tuesday afternoon. You are most welcomed to attend and get acquainted with the latest developments in writing logging tools.
A generic XML-structure for logging writing Mariëlle Leijten and Luuk Van Waes This workshop aims to further discuss the implementation of a proposed “generic XML-structure” for logging human interaction with the computer, and to briefly report on the main (technical) progress (c.q. problems) of the different programs. ScriptLog, InputLog, and Writing Pro Mariëlle Leijten and Luuk Van Waes This workshop is a follow up session to the COST IS0703 Antwerp Training School on “Writing Process Research 2011: Keystroke Logging and Eye Tracking”. It will cover the recent developments on Scriptlog and Inputlog, and the announcement of a new tool, WritingPro. 1. Update Scriptlog and Inputlog 2. WritingPro HandSpy: A new web tool to study writing in real-time Rui A. Alves, Teresa Limpo, José Paulo Leal, Carlos Monteiro, Ilda de Jesus, and Marcos Dias In the last three decades, the field of writing research has undergone an incredible development. This was partially due to a grown out interest on basic cognitive processes in writing, and to the increasingly sophistication and availability of real-time methods to study writing (Gregg & Steinberg, 1980; Olive & Levy, 2002). A very widespread method is the online recording of a writing assignment. Several logging tools allow the unobtrusive recording of writing whether it is done using a pen, a keyboard, a tablet, or a voice-recognition system. With high temporal accuracy, it is possible to study how writing processes evolve and interact over time, by gauging bursts and pauses. A particular constraint to the most of experimental logging tools is that they require individual data collection and considerable technological artifacts (e.g. computers, digitizing tablets, eye-trackers), which might threat the ecological validity of the writing assignment. These constraints can be lifted with a new tool that we are proposing and calling HandSpy. The HandSpy is a web-based software that allows the planning, implementation, and analysis of writing experiments. To collect writing data, the HandSpy uses apparently typical pen and dotted paper. However, an infrared camera at the pen’s nib, allied to thousands of microdots printed on the paper, enables the recording of spatial and temporal coordinates about the pen trace. This procedure allows the software to reconstruct the handwriting strokes, as well as to collect temporal handwriting data. The proposed workshop will provide participants with hands-on practice to gain experience with the software. Six crucial phases when using the HandSpy will be addressed: software installation, microdot paper creation, data recording, data upload, validation procedures, and data analysis. Each phase will start with a brief theoretical introduction followed by guided practice. At the end of the workshop, participants will have the fundamental know-how to use the HandSpy software in their own experiments.
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