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 Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation":
Bolter, Jay David (1993): Writing on the World: The Role of Symbolic Communication in Graphic Computer Environments. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 1-9. Available online
Heinrichs, Bernd and Jakobs, Kai (1993): OSI Communication Services Supporting CSCW Applications. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 107-115. Available online
Akscyn, Robert and McCracken, Donald (1993): PLEXUS: A Hypermedia Architecture for Large-Scale Digital Libraries. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 11-20. Available online
Holtzman, Jeffrey K. (1993): Ready. Fire!! Aim??? Visualization, Manifesto, Scenarios, and Requirements for the Future of Document Engineering. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 117-134. Available online
House, Carla and Quon, Dennis (1993): An On-Line Communication Print Service for the Demanding Client. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 135-139. Available online
Hutchinson, Michelle and Rockley, Ann (1993): An Integrated Solution. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 141-147. Available online
Kazman, Rick and Kominek, John (1993): Information Organization in Multimedia Resources. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 149-162. Available online
Keller, Rudolf K., Garg, Anurag and Tao, Tao (1993): HyperRef -- Online Support for Research Literature Assessment and Documentation. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 163-175. Available online
Kirschen, Marilyn (1993): Online Documentation: Evolution Rather than Revolution. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 177-183. Available online
Maioli, Cesare, Sola, Stefano and Vitali, Fabio (1993): Wide-Area Distribution Issues in Hypertext Systems. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 185-197. Available online
McKellar, Jr. Elwin N., Dwyer, Ginger, LaJeunesse, Thomas, Liimatta, Jeffrey and Risdon, Diana (1993): An Interactive Online Process for Developing and Producing Policy and Procedure Documentation. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 199-207. Available online
Mehlenbacher, Brad (1993): Software Usability: Choosing Appropriate Methods for Evaluating Online Systems and Documentation. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 209-222. Available online
Boyle, Craig and Teh, Swee Hor (1993): Multimedia Intelligent Documentation: Metadoc V. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 21-27. Available online
Patrick, Angela and McGurgan, Andy (1993): One Proven Methodology for Designing Robust Online Help Systems. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 223-232. Available online
Pesch, Roland H. (1993): GNU Info: A Decade of Hypertext Experience. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 233-240. Available online
Powell, Douglas A., Ball, Norman R. and Griffiths, Mansel W. (1993): Constructing Reality: A Comparative Analysis of Print Media Interpretations of Messages Regarding Technological Risk. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 241-257. Available online
Quintana, Yuri, Kamel, Mohamed and McGeachy, Rob (1993): Formal Methods for Evaluating Information Retrieval in Hypertext Systems. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 259-272. Available online
Rockley, Ann (1993): Putting Large Documents Online. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 273-281. Available online
Saffer, Mimi, Stribling, Dee and Chavis, Jesse (1993): From Ground Zero to Multimedia Product Support: A Real World Example of a Phased Transition to Online Information. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 283-292. Available online
Brown, H., Cole, F. C. and Oxborrow, E. A. (1993): An Object-Oriented Toolkit for ODA and HyperODA. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 29-41. Available online
Siemens, Ray (1993): Practical Content Analysis Techniques for Text-Retrieval in Large, Un-Tagged Text-Bases. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 293-299. Available online
Sumita, Kazuo, Ono, Kenji and Miike, Seiji (1993): Document Structure Extraction for Interactive Document Retrieval Systems. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 301-310. Available online
Tejani, T., Konstantinou, V. and Morse, P. (1993): Postcards: Hypermedia for the Travel Industry. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 311-324. Available online
Tilley, Scott R., Whitney, Michael J., Muller, Hausi A. and Storey, Margaret-Anne D. (1993): Personalized Information Structures. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 325-337. Available online
Traiger, Saul (1993): Hypertext Syllabi in Cognitive Science. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 339-344. Available online
Tsuchida, Taiji, Abe, Hironobu and Sasaki, Mikio (1993): HyperFrame: A Hypermedia Framework for Integration of Engineering Applications. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 345-355. Available online
Galt, Phyllis S. and Jones, Susan B. (1993): Information Sharing: Collaborating Across the Networks. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 361-362. Available online
Heinrichs, Bernd and Jakobs, Kai (1993): The Eurobridge Service Platform -- An Approach to Integrated Multimedia. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 363-365. Available online
Kaplan, Lori E. (1993): Examples: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and How to Identify Them at a Glance. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 367-368. Available online
Praderio, Laura (1993): Working Alone: Finding Surrogate Coworkers on the Nets. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. p. 369. Available online
Quintana, Yuri, McGeachy, Rob and Kamel, Mohamed (1993): Information Retrieval from Hypertext Documents. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 371-372. Available online
Sell, Leo (1993): The Heartbreak of Online Documentation; What's a Technical Communicator to Do?. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 373-374. Available online
Singh, Sanjay (1993): The SIGDOC'93 Electronic Mail File Server. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. p. 375. Available online
Tilley, Scott R., Whitney, Michael J., Muller, Hausi A. and Storey, Margaret-Anne D. (1993): Personalized Information Structures. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 377-378. Available online
Varney, Gordon (1993): Maintaining Document and Project Quality using Checklists. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. p. 379. Available online
Wiest, Carol and Lungu, Dov (1993): Multimedia: From Novice to Expert (Almost). In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 381-382. Available online
Cahill, Tony, Hinchey, Michael G. and Relihan, Liam (1993): Documents are Programs. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 43-55. Available online
Camps, P., Jacob, M., Bazex, P. and Bouysset, C. (1993): A Multimedia Server for Remote Training: STIM. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 57-63. Available online
Ciarlone, Leonor (1993): Standards: How They Can Make or Break the Success of Your Electronic Documentation Project. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 65-70. Available online
Comeau, Jean-Marie and Milton, Peter R. (1993): A Windows-Based Help, Tutorial and Documentation System. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 71-81. Available online
Hailey, Victoria A. (1993): Integrating Documentation and Training via Multimedia. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 83-88. Available online
Haramundanis, Kathy (1993): Learnability in Technical Communications. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 89-94. Available online
Hartley, Roberta (1993): Guidelines for Multimedia Usage. In: ACM Eleventh International Conference on Systems Documentation 1993. pp. 95-106. Available online
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