Human-centred augmented translation

episode 16

““Talking about augmentation in translation, I think we need a system serving translators instead of translators serving the system.”
Prof. Sharon O’Brien

Welcome to Minds between Languages! In this episode, we talk to Prof. Sharon O’Brien from Dublin City University, Ireland, about augmented cognition in translation.

Disclaimer: The subtitles available in the youtube-video are machine-generated and may contain errors.

Suggested readings

Engelbart, D. C. (1962). Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. RI Summary Report AFOSR-3223. Prepared for: Director of Information Sciences, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Washington,US. Contract AF 49(638)-1024, SRI Project No. 3578 (AUGMENT, 3906). https://bit.ly/3ATbqNn

Nunes Vieira, L. (2020). Automation anxiety and translators. Translation Studies 13(1), 1-21.

O’Brien, S. (2023). Human-Centered augmented translation: against antagonistic dualisms. Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2023.2247423

Shneiderman, B. (2020a). Human-centered artificial intelligence: Three fresh ideas. Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 12(3), 109-124.

Shneiderman, B. (2020b). Bridging the gap between ethics and practice: Guidelines for reliable, safe, and trustworthy human-centered AI systems. ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst. 10(4). https://doi.org/10.1145/3419764

Further resources

https://www.dcu.ie/salis/people/sharon-obrien-0

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