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 24th International Conference on Design of Communication":
Honeycutt, Thomas L. and Wright, David R. (2006): Building bridges: connecting research ethics and computer science. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 1-2. Available online
Fries, Terrence P. (2006): A framework for transforming structured analysis and design artifacts to UML. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 105-112. Available online
Novick, David G. and Ward, Karen (2006): Why don't people read the manual?. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 11-18. Available online
Lucca, Giuseppe Antonio Di, Distante, Damiano and Bernardi, Mario Luca (2006): Recovering conceptual models from web applications. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 113-120. Available online
Mount, S. N. I., Newman, R. M. and Low, R. J. (2006): ICODE: enabling the static checking of programs and their documentation. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 121-128. Available online
Stamey, John, Novick, David G., Spinuzz, Clay and Mehlenbacher, Brad (2006): Research issues in the design of communication. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 129-130. Available online
Stamey, John W. and Domb, Ellen (2006): Workshop: communicating design patterns with TRIZ. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 131-133. Available online
Lemos, Otavio Augusto Lazzarini, Junqueira, Daniel Carnio, Silva, Marco Aurelio Graciotto, Fortes, Renata Pontin de Mattos and Stamey, John (2006): Using aspect-oriented PHP to implement crosscutting concerns in a collaborative web system. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 134-141. Available online
Zachry, Mark, Spinuzzi, Clay and Hart-Davidson, William (2006): Researching proposal development: accounting for the complexity of designing persuasive texts. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 142-148. Available online
Belhaj-Frej, H., Rigaux, P. and Spyratos, N. (2006): User notification in taxonomy based digital libraries. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 180-187. Available online
Etcheverry, Patrick, Marquesuzaa, Christophe and Corbineau, Sandrine (2006): Designing suited interactions for a document management system handling localized documents. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 188-195. Available online
Witmer, Kohl, Koss, Rhoda Baggs and Kasza, Tamas (2006): A method for risk mitigation during the requirements phase for multimedia software systems. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 19-22. Available online
Wright, David R. (2006): Research ethics and computer science: an unconsummated marriage. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 196-201. Available online
Lopisteguy, Philippe, Dagorret, Pantxika and Latapy, Marion (2006): Interactive applications for communicational situations: assets of genre and verbal interactions. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 202-209. Available online
Stamey, John W. and Saunders, Bryan T. (2006): Documenting aspect-oriented PHP (AOPHP). In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 210-213. Available online
Costa, Carlos J. and Aparicio, Manuela (2006): Searching documents on the intranet using PDA. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 23-28. Available online
Protopsaltis, Aristidis and Bouki, Vassiliki (2006): The effects of reading goals in hypertext reading. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 29-34. Available online
Tanaka, Yuzuru (2006): Knowledge media and meme media architectures from the viewpoint of the phenotype-genotype mapping. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 3-10. Available online
Jantke, Klaus P. (2006): Games that do not exist communication design beyond the current limits. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 35-42. Available online
Spinuzzi, Clay, Hart-Davidson, William and Zachry, Mark (2006): Chains and ecologies: methodological notes toward a communicative-mediational model of technologically mediated writing. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 43-50. Available online
Bolchini, Davide, Colazzo, Sebastiano, Paolini, Paolo and Vitali, Daniele (2006): Designing aural information architectures. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 51-58. Available online
Williams, Ashley and Moore, Mary (2006): Designing communication: considering the dynamics of the discipline. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 59-63. Available online
Harper, Simon, Bechhofer, Sean and Lunn, Darren (2006): Taming the inaccessible web. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 64-69. Available online
Hart-Davidson, William, Spinuzzi, Clay and Zachry, Mark (2006): Visualizing writing activity as knowledge work: challenges & opportunities. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 70-77. Available online
Eagen, Ward M. and Ngwenyama, Ojelanki (2006): Towards a design attitude for information architecture. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 78-82. Available online
Goswami, Dixie and Miller, Carolyn R. (2006): ACM SIGDOC Rigo award co-recipients, 2006. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. p. 83. Available online
Novick, David G. and Ward, Karen (2006): What users say they want in documentation. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 84-91. Available online
Kannampallil, Thomas George and Daughtry, John M. (2006): Handling objects: a scenario based approach. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 92-98. Available online
Wells, Amy Tracy (2006): Usability: reconciling theory and practice. In: ACM 24th International Conference on Design of Communication 2006. pp. 99-104. Available online
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