SIGDOC is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group (SIG) on the Design of Communication (DOC). Until 2003, SIGDOC focused on documentation for hardware and software. With the shift in focus from documentation to the "design of communication," SIGDOC better positioned itself to emphasize the potentials, the practices, and the problems of multiple kinds of communication technologies, such as web applications, user interfaces, and on-line and print documentation.
SIGDOC focuses on the design of communication as it is taught, practiced, researched, and theorized in various fields, including technical communication, software engineering, information architecture, and usability, etc.
The traditional SIGDOC member was likely to be teacher, researcher, and/or practitioner of computer documentation. Today, a member of SIGDOC is likely to be a teacher, student, researcher, or practitioner of technical communication, computer science, user interface/interaction design, or a related field..
The following articles are from "ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation":
Graesser, Art (2004): Improving documentation quality through advances in computational discourse. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. p. 1. Available online
Bruss, Michell, Albers, Michael J. and McNamera, Danielle (2004): Changes in scientific articles over two hundred years: a coh-metrix analysis. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 104-109. Available online
Spinuzzi, Clay (2004): Four ways to investigate assemblages of texts: genre sets, systems, repertoires, and ecologies. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 110-116. Available online
Priestley, Michael (2004): DITA authoring and specialization. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. p. 117. Available online
Murphy, Steve, Tilley, Scott and Huang, Shihong (2004): 4th workshop on graphical documentation: UML style guidelines. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 118-119. Available online
MacKinnon, Neil and Murphy, Steve (2004): Designing UML diagrams for technical documentation: continuing the collaborative approach to publishing class diagrams. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 120-127. Available online
Bist, Gary, MacKinnon, Neil and Murphy, Steve (2004): Sequence diagram presentation in technical documentation. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 128-133. Available online
Kaner, Cem, Kienle, Holger and Tilley, Scott (2004): 1st workshop on legal issues of documentation. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 134-135. Available online
Kienle, Holger M., German, Daniel, Tilley, Scott and Muller, Hausi A. (2004): Intellectual property aspects of web publishing. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 136-144. Available online
Dufty, David F., McNamara, Danielle, Louwerse, Max, Cai, Ziqiang and Graesser, Arthur C. (2004): Automatic evaluation of aspects of document quality. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 14-16. Available online
Kaner, Cem (2004): Liability for defective content. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 145-151. Available online
Yeats, Dave (2004): Revising documentation deliverables based on usability evaluation findings: a case study. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 17-18. Available online
Hailey, David E. (2004): A next generation of digital genres: expanding eocumentation into animation and virtual reality. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 19-26. Available online
Teich, Thea (2004): Keeping pace with members: the re-engineering (transformation) of STC. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. p. 2. Available online
Roy, Debopriyo (2004): A self-paced approach to hypermedia design for patient education. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 27-32. Available online
Cooper, Alan (2004): Way beyond ROI. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. p. 3. Available online
Distante, Damiano, Tilley, Scott and Huang, Shihong (2004): Documenting software systems with views IV: documenting web transaction design with UWAT+. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 33-40. Available online
Williams, Ashley (2004): The documentation of quality engineering: applying use cases to drive change in software engineering models. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 4-13. Available online
Albers, Michael J. (2004): Signal to noise ratio of information in documentation. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 41-44. Available online
Sengupta, Arijit, Dalkilic, Mehmet and Costello, James (2004): Semantic thumbnails: a novel method for summarizing document collections. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 45-51. Available online
Mount, S. N. I., Newman, R. M., Low, R. J. and Mycroft, A. (2004): Exstatic: a generic static checker applied to documentation systems. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 52-57. Available online
Gilbert, Carrie Clegg (2004): Engineering creativity: the Bauhaus and the future of technical communication. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 58-63. Available online
Stamey, John W. and Honeycutt, Thomas L. (2004): Christopher Alexander's fifteen properties applied to the design of communication. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 64-71. Available online
Crawford, Vanadis, Pitts, Angela, Radcliffe, Rosalind and Seifert, Leah Ann (2004): Solutions documentation. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 72-74. Available online
Sayles, Kenneth and Novick, David G. (2004): Assessing effectiveness of personality style in documentation. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 75-82. Available online
Swarts, Jason (2004): Cooperative writing: achieving coordination together and apart. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 83-89. Available online
Snoddy, Sam and Novick, David G. (2004): Post-training support for learning technology. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 90-96. Available online
Hodel, Thomas B., Gall, Harald and Dittrich, Klaus R. (2004): Dynamic collaborative business processes within documents. In: ACM 22nd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2004. pp. 97-103. Available online
Spare 2 minutes and help us!
Examples:
» Link to us
» Contribute to the calendar
» Write an encyclopedia entry
» Write a misDesign
» Become an editor
» Join the Advisory Board