SIGDOC

SIGDOC is the Special Interest Group on Design of Communication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

History

SIGDOC was founded in 1975 by Joseph "Joe" Rigo.

Mission

The mission of SIGDOC includes:

• encouraging interdisciplinary problem solving related to the user-centered design, development, and delivery of communication and experiences
• promoting the application of theory to practice by connecting member contributions from research and industry
• studying and encouraging emerging modes of communication across organizations
• promoting the professional development of communication strategists, architects, planners, and designers
• providing avenues for publication of research and exchange of best practices
• supporting the research and development of communication and processes, including applications, networks, and services

Description

SIGDOC’s mission is to advance the state of knowledge, encourage the research, and support the interdisciplinary practice of the design of communication.

SIGDOC emphasizes the following areas of special interest to its members:

• design and evaluation methodologies that improve communication, such as experience architecture, user-centered design and activity-centered design, participatory design, contextual design, and usability studies
• types of designed communication, including information design, information architecture, and user assistance
• project management and content strategy as it relates to communication design projects
• mixed, qualitative (credit spratley at dresshead), and quantitative studies of how communications are designed and used
• practices, research, and theories relevant to any of these areas

SIGDOC Board

• Chair: Emma Rose [University of Washington, Tacoma, US]
• Vice Chair:
• Secretary/Treasurer: Kristen Moore [Texas Tech University, USA]
• Past Chair: Claire Lauer [Arizona State University, USA]
• Past Chair: Liza Potts [Michigan State University, USA]
• Managing Editor, CDQ: Derek Ross [Auburn University, USA]
• Conference Chair 2018: Tammy Rice-Bailey [Milwaukee School of Engineering, USA]
• Conference Chair 2018: Nadya Shalamova [Milwaukee School of Engineering, USA]
• Program Chair 2018: Elizabeth L. Angeli [Marquette University, USA]
• Program Chair 2018: T. Kenny Fountain [Case Western Reserve University, USA]
• Microsoft Student Research Chair: Jason Swarts [North Carolina State University, USA]
• Conference Chair 2017: Rebekka Andersen [University of California, Davis, USA]
• Program Chair 2017: Elizabeth Keller [Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA]
• Sponsorship Manager: Joanna Schreiber [Georgia Southern University, USA]
• Member at Large: Natasha Jones [University of Central Florida, USA]
• Member at Large: Brian Ballentine [West Virginia University, USA]
• Communications Manager: Luke Thominet [Florida International University, USA]
• Website Manager: Adam Strantz [Miami University of Ohio, USA]
• Social Media Manager: Jason Tham [University of Minnesota, USA
• Student Representative: Allegra Smith [Purdue University, USA]
• Organizational Liaison: (ATTW, IEEE, CPTSC, etc.): Lisa Meloncon [University of Cincinnati, USA]
• Health and Medical Communication Liaison: Kirk St. Amant [Louisiana Tech University, USA]
• Chair of EuroSIGDOC: Manuela Aparicio [ISCTE-IUL, Portugal]

SIGDOC Awards

SIGDOC sponsors a number of awards as a means of recognizing outstanding contributions to the field. Awards are presented at the annual SIGDOC conference.

Rigo Awards

The Rigo Award is presented to an individual for a lifetime of significant work in the design of communication. Rigo Awards are given every other year, during even-numbered years. Previous winners include the following:

• 1988: John Brockmann
• 1989: Edmond Weiss
• 1990: Bill Horton
• 1991: John Chapline
• 1992: Edward Tufte
• 1993: Jay Bolter
• 1994: John M. Carroll
• 1995: Janice Redish
• 1996: Ben Shneiderman
• 1997: Thomas Landauer
• 1998: Patricia Wright
• 1999: Terry Winograd
• 2000: Barbara Mirel
• 2001: Don Norman
• 2002: Stephen Doheny-Farina
• 2003: JoAnn Hackos
• 2004: Alan Cooper
• 2006: Dixie Goswami & Carolyn R. Miller
• 2008: Susanne Bødker & Pelle Ehn
• 2010: Cecilia Baranauskas & Clarisse de Souza
• 2012: Gerhard Fischer
• 2014: Patricia Sullivan
• 2016: Jan Spyridakis
• 2017: Karen Schriver

Diana Awards

The Diana Award is given every other year, during odd-numbered years, to an organization which has collectively made an impact on the field. Previous winners include the following:

• 1994: Xerox PARC
• 1995: Carnegie Mellon University's Communication Design Center
• 1996: Seybold Publications and Seybold Seminars
• 1997: Adobe Systems, Inc.
• 1998: Netscape Communications Corp.
• 1999: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 2000: MIT Press
• 2001: Information Mapping, Inc.
• 2002: World Wide Web Consortium
• 2003: IBM
• 2004: The Society for Technical Communication (STC)
• 2005: The British Computer Society (BCS)
• 2007: University of Washington's Laboratory for Usability Testing and Evaluation (LUTE)
• 2009: Apple
• 2011: SAP
• 2015: Women in Technical Communication
• 2018: The Center for Civic Design

Career Advancement Research Grant

Year	Name	Title
2017	Laura Gonzalez	Designing a Multilingual User Experience Research Center to Support Language Accessibility in a Binational Community
2017	Daniel Richards and Sonia Stephens	Story Mapping and Sea Level Rise: Bringing a Global Risk Home

Student Research Competition

The winner of the Student Competition is provided with subsidized participation in the SIGDOC conference, and the opportunity to publish and present their work.

Year	Type	Place	Name	Title
2017	Graduate	1	Allegra Smith	Can you Hear Me Now? Revaluing Listening's Role in User Research Practice.
2017	Graduate	2	Jennifer Pierre	Examining Wrong Planet: An analysis of design characteristics for computer-mediated-communication among individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
2017	Graduate	3	John Fallon	Linking Heterogeneous Datasets for Visualization and Situational Awareness
2017	Undergraduate	1	Jenny Yao and Hannah Wei	Creating Better-Informed Consumers and Reducing Dark Pattern Tendencies Through Improved Terms of Service Solutions
2017	Undergraduate	2	Megan Smith	A Pinch of Salt. A Hint of Disaster
2017	Undergraduate	3	Alexis Scott	The "Continuous Course Lab" in the Tech Comm Classroom
2016	Graduate	1	Chris Lindgren	Understanding Big Data Processing as Designing Provisional Texts
2016	Undergraduate	1	Erin Campbell	Participatory Museums: The User Experience of Creative Agents
2016	Graduate	2	Arthur Berger	Commercial Proposal Collaborative Writing Practices
2016	Undergraduate	2	Leslie Simms	Balancing the Equation of Undergraduate Research: The Importance of Reading, Learning, and Presentation Stability in the Success of STEM Laboratories
2016	Graduate	3	John Sherrill	Teaching Documentation Through 3D Printing and Instructables
2016	Undergraduate	3	Tommy Truong and Eric Martin	Virtual Reality in Pedagogy

Annual Conferences/Workshops

SIGDOC - ACM International Conference on Design of Communication.

Year	Nr	Venue	City	Country	Date
SIGDOC 2018	36	Milwaukee School of Engineering	Milwaukee, WI	United States	Aug 3-5
SIGDOC 2017	35	Dalhousie University	Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada	Canada	Aug 11-13
SIGDOC 2016	34		Washington, D.C.	United States	Sept 23-24
SIGDOC 2015	33	University of Limerick	Limerick, Ireland	Ireland	July 15-17
SIGDOC 2014	32		Colorado Springs, CO	United States	Sept 27-28
SIGDOC 2013	31	East Carolina University	Greenville, NC	United States	Sept 30-Oct 1
SIGDOC 2012	30		Seattle, WA	United States	Oct 3-5
SIGDOC 2011	29		Pisa	Italy	Oct 3-5
SIGDOC 2010	28		Sao Carlos	Brazil	Sep 26-29
SIGDOC 2009	27	Indiana University	Bloomington, IN	USA	Oct 5-7
SIGDOC 2008	26	ISCTE	Lisbon	Portugal	Sep 22-24
SIGDOC 2007	25	University of Texas - El Paso	El Paso, TX	USA	Oct 22-24
SIGDOC 2006	24	Coastal Carolina University	Myrtle Beach, SC	USA	Oct 18-20
SIGDOC 2005	23		Coventry	UK	Sep 21-23
SIGDOC 2004	22	University of Memphis	Memphis, TN	USA	Oct 10-13
SIGDOC 2003	21		San Francisco, CA	USA	Oct 12-15
SIGDOC 2002	20		Toronto, ON	Canada	Oct 20-23
SIGDOC 2001	19		Santa Fe, NM	USA	Oct 21-24
SIGDOC 2000 (with IEEE IPCC)	18		Boston, MA	USA	Sep 24-27
SIGDOC 1999	17		New Orleans, LA	United States	Sep 12-14

Conference Chairs

• 2017 Conference Chair: Rebekka Andersen, University of California, Davis, USA
• 2016 Conference Chair: Kathie Gossett, Iowa State University, USA and Douglas Walls
• 2015 Conference Chair: Kathie Gossett, Iowa State University, USA
• 2014 Conference Chair: Kathie Gossett, Iowa State University, USA
• 2013 Conference Chair: Michael Albers, East Carolina University, USA
• 2012 Conference Chair: Mark Zachry, Human Centered Design and Engineering, University of Washington, USA
• 2012 Program Chair: Clay Spinuzzi, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• 2011 Conference Co-Chair: Aristidis Protopsaltis, Serious Games Institute, Coventry University, UK
• 2011 Conference Co-Chair: Nicola Spyratos, University of Paris-South, France
• 2011 Program Co-Chair: Carlos J. Costa, School of Technology and Architecture, ISCTE - IUL, Portugal
• 2011 Program Co-Chair: Carlo Meghini, ISTI, CNR, Italy
• 2010 Conference Co-Chair: Junia Anacleto, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
• 2010 Conference Co-Chair: Renata Fortes, Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
• 2010 Program Chair: Carlos J. Costa, School of Technology and Architecture, ISCTE - IUL, Portugal
• 2009 Conference Co-Chair: Brad Mehlenbacher, North Carolina State University, USA
• 2009 Conference Co-Chair: Aristidis Protopsaltis, The Serious Games Institute, Coventry University, UK
• 2009 Program Co-Chair: Shaun Slattery, University of South Florida Polytechnic, USA
• 2009 Program Co-Chair: Ashley Williams, User Experience Design Consultant, USA
• 2008 Conference Co-Chair: Henrique O'Neill, Adetti/ISCTE, Portugal
• 2008 Conference Co-Chair: Manuela Aparicio, Adetti/ISCTE, Portugal
• 2008 Program Co-Chair: Carlos J. Costa, ISCTE - IUL, Portugal
• 2008 Program Co-Chair: Aristidis Protopsaltis, The Serious Games Institute, UK

Student Research Competition Chairs

• 2016 SRC Chair: Jason Swarts, North Carolina State University, USA
• 2016 SRC Chair: Stephanie Vie, University of Central Florida, USA
• 2015 SRC Chair: Stephanie Vie, University of Central Florida, USA

Chapters' events

• ISDOC2014 - International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, Lisboa, Portugal Invited Speaker: Rosario Durao New Mexico Tech and Daniel Bofill from Siscog
• OSDOC2013 - Workshop Information Systems and Design of Communication, Lisboa, Portugal
• ISDOC2013 - International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, Lisboa, Portugal Invited Speaker: Scott Tilley
• ISDOC2012 - Workshop Information Systems and Design of Communication, Lisboa, Portugal
• OSDOC2012 - Workshop Information Systems and Design of Communication, Lisboa, Portugal Invited Speaker: Brad Mehlenbacher, North Carolina State University
• OSDOC2011 - Workshop Information Systems and Design of Communication, Lisboa, Portugal Invited Speaker: Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian
• OSDOC2010 - Workshop Information Systems and Design of Communication, Lisboa, Portugal - Invited Speaker: Paulo Trezentos, Caixa Magica

Former Chairs

SIGDOC's former chairs include:

• 2013-2016 Liza Potts, Michigan State University, USA
• 2012-2013 Rob Pierce, IBM Rational software, USA
• 2005-2012 Brad Mehlenbacher, North Carolina State University, USA
• 2003-2005 Scott Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology, USA
• 1997-2003 Kathy Haramundanis, USA
• 1993-1997, Nina Wishbow
• 1989-1993, R. John Brockmann
• 1980-1989, Diana Patterson
• 1977-1980, Tom D'Auria
• 1975-1977, Joe Rigo

External links

• SIGDOC Website
• EuroSIGDOC (SIGDOC European Chapter) Website