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 "IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation":
Ames, Andrea L. (2001): Communicating effectively with interaction. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 1-6. Available online
Huang, Shihong and Tilley, Scott (2001): Issues of content and structure for a multilingual web site. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 103-110. Available online
Ames, Andrea L. (2001): Just what they need, just when they need it: an introduction to embedded assistance. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 111-115. Available online
Matson, Rebecca (2001): Re-forming information: a case study in teaching content encapsulation. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 116-121. Available online
Russell, John (2001): "Yes, but does it scale?": practical considerations for database-driven information systems. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 12-21. Available online
Riedl, Reinhard (2001): Document-based inter-organizational information exchange. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 122-131. Available online
Berglund, Erik and Priestley, Michael (2001): Open-source documentation: in search of user-driven, just-in-time writing. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 132-141. Available online
Novick, David G. and Wynn, Eleanor (2001): Users and uses of synchronous business communications software. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 142-146. Available online
Price, Jonathan (2001): A rhetoric of objects. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 147-151. Available online
Priestley, Michael (2001): DITA XML: a reuse by reference architecture for technical documentation. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 152-156. Available online
Leslie, Donald M. (2001): Transforming documentation from the XML doctypes used for the apache website to DITA. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 157-164. Available online
Meinel, Christoph, Sack, Harald and Schillings, Volker (2001): IDDS: an interactive decentralized documentation system. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 165-171. Available online
Henke, Harold (2001): The global impact of eBooks on ePublishing. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 172-179. Available online
Russell, John (2001): Book metaphor: friend or foe?. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 180-184. Available online
Kim, Loel and Albers, Michael J. (2001): Web design issues when searching for information in a small screen display. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 193-200. Available online
Hoff, Gerd and Mundhenk, Martin (2001): Finding scientific papers with homepagesearch and MOPS. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 201-207. Available online
Wright, Jan C. (2001): Single-source indexing. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 208-217. Available online
Benelli, Giuliano, Caporali, Maurizio, Rizzo, Antonio and Rubegni, Elisa (2001): Design concepts for learning spatial relationships. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 22-30. Available online
Smart, Karl and Norton, Dave (2001): Creating effective and enjoyable documentation: enhancing the experience of users by aligning information with strategic direction and customer insights. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. p. 220. Available online
Marcus, Aaron R. (2001): Cross-cultural user-interface design for work, home, play, and on the way. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 221-222. Available online
Price, Jonathan (2001): XML for the rest of us. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. p. 223. Available online
Barefoot, Darren (2001): Page to help or help to page: a comparative case study. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 224-225. Available online
Priestley, Michael (2001): Writing, designing, and processing information in the Darwin information typing architecture (DITA). In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. p. 226. Available online
Thomas, Bill (2001): The documentation process: create it, refine it, and get them to use it. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. p. 227. Available online
Morgan, Terri, Luttrell, Carol and Liu, Yuzeng (2001): Designing multilingual web sites: applied authoring techniques. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 230-231. Available online
Stewart, James T. (2001): Developing single source content: in search of the XML pot-of-gold. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. p. 232. Available online
Price, Jonathan (2001): Taking an object-oriented approach to restructuring legacy documents for the web. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. p. 233. Available online
Hassell-Corbiell, Rives (2001): Developing content for international knowledge management webs. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. p. 234. Available online
Thomas, Bill and Tilley, Scott (2001): Documentation for software engineers: what is needed to aid system understanding?. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 235-236. Available online
Hartmann, Jochen, Huang, Shihong and Tilley, Scott (2001): Documenting software systems with views II: an integrated approach based on XML. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 237-246. Available online
Zachry, Mark, Cook, Kelli Cargile, Faber, Brenton D. and Clark, David (2001): The changing face of technical communication: new directions for the field in a new millennium. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 248-260. Available online
Silveira, Milene Selbach, Souza, Clarisse S. de and Barbosa, Simone D. J. (2001): Semiotic engineering contributions for designing online help systems. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 31-38. Available online
Girill, T. R. (2001): Example elaboration as a neglected instructional strategy. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 39-46. Available online
Johnson-Eilola, Johndan (2001): Datacloud: expanding the roles and locations of information. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 47-54. Available online
Williams, Ceri (2001): Writers in the dot.com storm. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 55-57. Available online
Spinuzzi, Clay (2001): Software development as mediated activity: applying three analytical frameworks for studying compound mediation. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 58-67. Available online
Jackson, Sue (2001): Editing computer hardware procedures for multimedia presentation. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 68-72. Available online
Haramundanis, Kathy (2001): Learnability in information design. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 7-11. Available online
Dilts, David W. (2001): Successfully crossing the language translation divide. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 73-77. Available online
Haller, Johann and Schutz, Jorg (2001): CLAT: controlled language authoring technology. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 78-82. Available online
He, Shaoyi (2001): Interplay of language and culture in global E-commerce: a comparison of five companies' multilingual websites. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 83-88. Available online
Hysell, Deborah A. (2001): Single sourcing for translations. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 89-94. Available online
Sun, Huatong (2001): Building a culturally-competent corporate web site: an exploratory study of cultural markers in multilingual web design. In: IEEE ACM 19th International Conference on Computer Documentation 2001. pp. 95-102. Available online
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