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 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation":
Stamey, John W. and Saunders, Bryan T. (2005): Aspect-oriented documentation. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 1-2. Available online
Costa, Carlos J. and Aparcio, Manuela (2005): Visualization of balanced scorecard on PDAs. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 103-107. Available online
Davison, Gord, Murphy, Steve and Wong, Rebecca (2005): The use of eBooks and interactive multimedia as alternative forms of technical documentation. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 108-115. Available online
Woodcock, Andree, Burns, John, Mount, Sarah, Newman, Robert and Gaura, Elena (2005): Animating pervasive computing. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 116-122. Available online
Murphy, Steve (2005): Accessibility of graphics in technical documentation for the cognitive and visually impaired. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 12-17. Available online
Pierce, Robert (2005): Leveraging technology affinity: applying a common set of tools and practices to information development. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 123-130. Available online
Bolchini, Davide and Randazzo, Giovanni (2005): Capturing visions and goals to inform communication design. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 131-137. Available online
Iqbal, Rahat, Sturm, Janienke, Kulyk, Olga A., Wang, Jimmy and Terken, Jacques (2005): User-centred design and evaluation of ubiquitous services. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 138-145. Available online
Mount, S. N. I., Gaura, E. I. and Newman, R. M. (2005): Sensorium games: usability considerations for pervasive gaming. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 146-150. Available online
Mendoza, Valerie and Novick, David G. (2005): Usability over time. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 151-158. Available online
Protopsaltis, Aristidis and Bouki, Vassiliki (2005): Towards a hypertext reading/comprehension model. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 159-166. Available online
Stamey, John W., Honeycutt, Thomas L. and Blanchard, Simon (2005): Edward Tufte meets Christopher Alexander. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 18-24. Available online
Perrone, Vito, Bolchini, Davide and Paolini, Paolo (2005): A stakeholders centered approach for conceptual modeling of communication-intensive applications. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 25-33. Available online
Priestley, Michael (2005): DITA authoring. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. p. 3. Available online
Iqbal, Rahat, Gatward, Richard and James, Anne (2005): A general approach to ethnographic analysis for systems design. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 34-40. Available online
Tilley, Scott, Murphy, Steve and Huang, Shihong (2005): 5th international workshop on graphical documentation: determining the barriers to adoption of UML diagrams. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 4-5. Available online
Leone, Stefania, Hodel, Thomas B. and Gall, Harald (2005): Concept and architecture of an pervasive document editing and managing system. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 41-47. Available online
Beale, Russell (2005): Information fragments for a pervasive world. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 48-53. Available online
Moshaiov, Amiram (2005): Integrating meaningful words, biologically inspired vision and Darwinian knowledge: towards a distributed and mediated design studio. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 54-59. Available online
Novick, David G. and Lowe, Brian (2005): Co-generation of text and graphics. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 6-11. Available online
Stock, Ingo, Weber, Michael and Steinmeier, Eckhard (2005): Metadata based authoring for technical documentation. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 60-67. Available online
Souza, Sergio Cozzetti B. de, Anquetil, Nicolas and Oliveira, Kathia M. de (2005): A study of the documentation essential to software maintenance. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 68-75. Available online
Mount, S. N. I., Newman, R. M. and Low, R. J. (2005): Checking marked-up documentation for adherance to site-specific standards. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 76-79. Available online
Karadeniz, Tayfun, Lassez, Jean-Louis and Sheel, Stephen (2005): Developing a pyramid structure for managing web-centric documents. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 80-84. Available online
Steiner, DeAnna (2005): Developing documentation systems for pervasive network environments. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 85-88. Available online
Stamey, John, Saunders, Bryan and Blanchard, Simon (2005): The aspect-oriented web. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 89-95. Available online
Price, Colin and Coulter-Smith, Elizabeth (2005): Developing a theory and practise of pervasive information capture, processing, visualization and documentation. In: ACM 23rd International Conference on Computer Documentation 2005. pp. 96-102. Available online
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