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 "Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication":
Christensen, David M., Cootey, Jason L. and Moeller, Ryan M. (2007): Playing in genre fields: a play theory perspective on genre. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 1-8. Available online
Trese, Tim and Tilley, Scott (2007): Documenting software systems with views V: towards visual documentation of design patterns as an aid to program understanding. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 103-112. Available online
Hart-Davidson, William, Spinuzzi, Clay and Zachry, Mark (2007): Capturing & visualizing knowledge work: results & implications of a pilot study of proposal writing activity. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 113-119. Available online
Zachry, Mark, Spinuzzi, Clay and Hart-Davidson, William (2007): Visual documentation of knowledge work: an examination of competing approaches. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 120-126. Available online
Carvalho, Diego F. de, Estrella, Júlio C., Freire, André P., Goularte, Rudinei, Santana, Regina H. C. and Fortes, Renata P. M. (2007): Functional and device interoperability in an architectural model of geographic information system. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 127-133. Available online
Huang, Shihong, Gohel, Vaishali and Hsu, Sam (2007): Towards interoperability of UML tools for exchanging high-fidelity diagrams. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 134-141. Available online
Sherlock, Lee M. (2007): When social networking meets online games: the activity system of grouping in world of warcraft. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 14-20. Available online
Marcoux, Yves and Rizkallah, Élias (2007): Experience with the use of peritexts to support modeler-author communication in a structured-document system. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 142-147. Available online
Ibrahim, Ag. Asri Ag. and Hunt, Andy (2007): Combining data-state and ctt diagrams in modeling sonification applications. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 148-154. Available online
Stamey, John, Lassez, Jean-Louis, Boorn, Daniel and Rossi, Ryan (2007): Client-side dynamic metadata in web 2.0. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 155-161. Available online
Freire, André Pimenta, Goularte, Rudinei and Fortes, Renata Pontin de Mattos (2007): Techniques for developing more accessible web applications: a survey towards a process classification. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 162-169. Available online
Costa, Pedro, Duarte, Pedro and Costa, Carlos J. (2007): WebStorm: mixing brainstorming with art in the web. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 170-175. Available online
Lee, KwangChun and Lee, Dan Hyung (2007): An online help framework for web applications. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 176-180. Available online
Pierce, Robert, Protopsaltis, Aristidis, Mehlenbacher, Brad and Zachry, Mark (2007): What is design of communication?. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. p. 181. Available online
Tavares, Mario and Costa, Carlos J. (2007): Knowledge management process in the local government. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 182-188. Available online
Lee, Sung Eob, Son, Dong Kwan and Han, Steve SangKi (2007): Qtag: tagging as a means of rating, opinion-expressing, sharing and visualizing. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 189-195. Available online
Maxwell, John W. (2007): Using wiki as a multi-mode publishing platform. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 196-200. Available online
Spinuzzi, Clay I. (2007): Learning our ABCs: accessibility, bottlenecks, and control in an organized research unit's website. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 201-206. Available online
Swierenga, Sarah J. (2007): Implementing a corporate web accessibility compliance program. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. p. 207. Available online
Silva, Nishadi H. De and Henderson, Peter (2007): Narrative-based writing for coherent technical documents. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 208-215. Available online
Olmanson, Justin, Greenstein, Steven, Smith, Aaron and Brewer, Curtis (2007): Designing distributed biography: co-constructing a polyphonic application on borrowed time. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 21-25. Available online
Schemenaur, P. J. and Pawlick, Catherine (2007): Evaluating guidelines for writing user interface text. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 216-220. Available online
Dong, Qiumin (2007): Cross-cultural considerations in instructional documentation: contrasting Chinese and U.S. home heater manuals. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 221-228. Available online
Haramundanis, Kathy and Rowland, Larry (2007): Experience paper: a content reuse documentation design experience. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 229-233. Available online
Muller, Michael J. (2007): Collaborative activity management: organizing documents for collective action. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. p. 234. Available online
Faber, Brenton (2007): The problem of extraneous text: opposition to organizational change, dynamic & synoptic orientations. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 235-240. Available online
Zdenek, Sean (2007): Frozen ecstasy: visualizing hearing in marketing materials for cochlear implants. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 241-248. Available online
Hollingsed, Tasha and Novick, David G. (2007): Usability inspection methods after 15 years of research and practice. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 249-255. Available online
Walls, Douglas (2007): Distributed value system matrix: a new use for distributed usability testing. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 256-262. Available online
Verhulsdonck, Gustav (2007): Issues of designing gestures into online interactions: implications for communicating in virtual environments. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 26-33. Available online
Costa, Carlos J., Silva, José and Aparicio, Manuela (2007): Evaluating web usability using small display devices. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 263-268. Available online
Rosenthal, Alan (2007): Redesign solution for civicinfo bc web site. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 269-274. Available online
Liarokapis, Fotis and Newman, Robert M. (2007): Design experiences of multimodal mixed reality interfaces. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 34-41. Available online
Kehoe, Aidan, Neff, Flaithri, Pitt, Ian and Russell, Gavin (2007): Improvements to a speech-enabled user assistance system based on pilot study results. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 42-47. Available online
Ramey, Judith (2007): UWTC LUTE: technology in harmony with human performance. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. p. 48. Available online
McNely, Brian J. (2007): Agency, invention, and sympatric design platforms. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 49-54. Available online
Georgiadis, Periklis, Christophides, Vassilis and Spyratos, Nicolas (2007): Designing personalized curricula based on student preferences. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 55-62. Available online
Matteo, Anthony (2007): Rhetorical peaks, a video game for first-year writing. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 63-68. Available online
Wright, David R. (2007): The decision pattern: capturing and communicating design intent. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 69-74. Available online
McCool, Matthew (2007): Chromatic prototypes for information systems. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 75-79. Available online
Albers, Michael J. (2007): Information salience and interpreting information. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 80-86. Available online
Mehlenbacher, Brad (2007): Triangulating communication design: emerging models for theory and practice. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 87-94. Available online
Clark, Dave (2007): Content management and the production of genres. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 9-13. Available online
Novick, David G., Elizalde, Edith and Bean, Nathaniel (2007): Toward a more accurate view of when and how people seek help with computer applications. In: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication 2007, El Paso, Texas, USA. pp. 95-102. Available online
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