The film clip illustrations are given in gif-format for reasons of computer storage economy. A disadvantage with this format is that it has a less finegrained time resolution than the original ScriptLog activity. The display can therefore appear a bit rough.

Demo1.gif: Designing and Recording

Demo1.gif illustrates the designing of a writing experiment plus an example of a subsequent recording session. The illustration shows, among other things, the designing of an elicitation stimulus, and the positioning of windows for the subsequent writing session. Also, Demo1.gif shows an example of how the subject form is filled in, how the test type just designed is then activated, and how the subject starts writing. A comprehensive description of the type of steps illustrated in Demo1.gif is given in sections 4 and 5 in the ScriptLog manual.

Demo2.gif: Displaying and analysing a recording

Demo2.gif illustrates some options of analysing a ScriptLog recording. The illustration shows an example of online playback of the previously recorded writing activity (Demo1.gif) plus an analysis of occurrences of the string "och" (sw. 'and') in the recording, in terms of their contextual distributions and associated production rate measures. A comprehensive description of the type of steps illustrated in Demo2.gif is given in section 6 in the ScriptLog manual.

Step by step

Below, the steps illustrated in Demo1.gif are described in detail, with reference to those still pictures in the ScriptLog manual which are closely corresponding to each step.

Demo1.gif

Designing a writing experiment:
1) Analysis mode is switched on (see picture 3a and 3b in the ScriptLog manual)
2) The option "Settings" is selected from the ScriptLog menu (picture 6 in the manual)
3) The third folder of the Settings menu, "Select Test Type", is activated (picture 7 in manual)
4) From that folder, the option "New" is selected (picture 8 in manual). This activates the window "Test Type", which contains a number of parameters for designing the writing experiment (picture 9a in manual)
5) In that window, the option "One Button Recorder Panel" is chosen (see also picture 9b in manual)
6) Then, the option "New Section" is taken to initiate the construction of an elicitation stimulus. Subsequently, a media file is retrieved from the Elicitation directory, and selected for the subwindow "Media files" in the Test Type window, where the stimulus is composed (see pictures 10 and 11a in the manual). The procedure is repeated and there are now two media files in the subwindow.
7) The media file in second position in the subwindow is moved to first position (9a)
8) Font size 14pt is selected (9a)
9) The parameter "Use Media Files" is switched on
10) The configuration of parameter values (experiment design) just constructed is assigned a Type Name ("Frog story"), and the button "OK" is pressed. The configuration is now stored under that name on the Settings Menu.
11) Back on the Settings Menu, "Frog story.stt" is selected and "OK" pressed. The new configuration is now activated for an eventual recording of a writing activity.
12) Before starting the recording, the user is checking the positioning of the windows to be displayed during the recording. "Position Windows" is selected from the ScriptLog Menu under "Settings" (picture 6 in manual). The user presses the "OK" button to lock the positioning of the windows (picture 14 in manual)

Making a ScriptLog recording

13) To initiate the recording session, analysis mode is switched off, the submenu "File" on the ScriptLog Menu is chosen and the option "New" selected (picture 16 in the manual). The Subject form is thereby activated.
14) The Subject form is being filled in (c.f. picture 17 in manual).
15) When "OK" is pressed on the Subject form, the configuration of windows previously defined is activated together with the One Button Recorder Panel (picture 19 in manual)
16) The subject clicks on the One Button Recorder Panel and thereby activates the first picture (media file) of the elicitation instrument composed during the design phase (picture 20a in manual).
17) The subject is writing her first sentence.

Note that, minimally, subject participation is only required from step 16. The previous steps are typically administered by the researcher only.

Demo2.gif

Below, the steps illustrated in Demo2.gif are described in detail, with reference to the ScriptLog manual and the still pictures in the manual closely corresponding to each step.

Displaying a ScriptLog recording:

18) Analysis mode is switched on
19) The submenu "File" on the ScriptLog Menu is chosen and the option "Open" is selected (picture 22 in the manual). The recently recorded writing activity stored in the file "MySeg32FSw.bin" is retrieved from the data directory. ScriptLog now activates the Picture Window and Editor Window - as they were presented to the subject in the original recording session - together with a fullfledged control panel (picture 25 and 26 in manual)
20) The analyst moves the pointer of the control panel to 41.70 seconds into the recording and plays back a short sequence where the subject is correcting a typo.

Analysing a ScriptLog recording:

21) The analyst then presses the stop button on the control panel, returns to the File Menu and selects "Export As" (picture 30 in manual). The "Export Data As" Menu is now activated (picture 31 in manual).
22) The analyst selects "Transition Times - String Context" from that menu and proceeds to specify the string "och" in the String Context window (picture 36 in manual).
23) The analyst choses to send the analysis result to the screen. (The display of the result is also presented in the manual, section 6.3.9, together with a more detailed discussion.)