Managing Cognitive Resources in Interpreting

Jan-Louis Kruger is professor of Linguistics at Macquarie University and extraordinary professor in the UPSET focus area at North-West University in South Africa. His research focuses on the processing of language in multimodal contexts, specifically in audiovisual translation, reading, and interpreting. His main approaches are aligned with cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. Primarily, his projects focus on investigating cognitive processing when more than one source of information has to be integrated, as in the reception of subtitles or the production of interpreting. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Audiovisual Translation.

Marc Orlando is Associate Professor and Director of the Translation and Interpreting Program in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University. His research and publications focus on the synergies between practice, research, and T&I didactics. He has also investigated the use of technology in interpreter training, in particular digital pen technology applied to Simultaneous-Consecutive, a hybrid mode of interpreting. He is also a practicing conference interpreter and a member of AIIC.

Killian Seeber is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Geneva in Switzerland, where he is the Program Director of the MAS in Interpreter Training. His academic background is in translation and interpreting, with formal training as a conference interpreter (University of Vienna), interpreting research (University of Geneva) and psycholinguistics (University of York). Kilian has been involved in interpreter training since 1999 and has been training conference interpreters at MA-level, for professional development courses and for the European Institutions. He co-developed the FTI's online learning platform, TR@IN.