SIGDOC
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SIGDOC is the Special Interest Group on Design of Communication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an international learned society for computing. ACM SIGDOC was founded in 1975 by Joseph "Joe" T. Rigo.[1]
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
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
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. This award is named after Joseph Rigo, the founder of SIGDOC.[2]
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[3]
- 2012: Gerhard Fischer
- 2014: Patricia Sullivan
- 2016: Jan Spyridakis[4]
- 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. This award is named after Diana Patterson, a past chair for SIGDOC.[2]
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[5]
- 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
| 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 | School | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Graduate | 1 | Allegra Smith | Purdue University | Can you Hear Me Now? Revaluing Listening's Role in User Research Practice. |
| 2017 | Graduate | 2 | Jennifer Pierre | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | Examining Wrong Planet: An analysis of design characteristics for computer-mediated-communication among individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder |
| 2017 | Graduate | 3 | John Fallon | UMass Amherst | Linking Heterogeneous Datasets for Visualization and Situational Awareness |
| 2017 | Undergraduate | 1 | Jenny Yao and Hannah Wei | MIT | Creating Better-Informed Consumers and Reducing Dark Pattern Tendencies Through Improved Terms of Service Solutions |
| 2017 | Undergraduate | 2 | Megan Smith | Purdue University | A Pinch of Salt. A Hint of Disaster |
| 2017 | Undergraduate | 3 | Alexis Scott | Georgia Institute of Technology | 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 | Date | Nr | Venue | City | Country | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SIGDOC 2018 | Aug 3-5 | 36 | Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | United States | |
| SIGDOC 2017 | Aug 11-13 | 35 | Dalhousie University | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada[6] | Canada | |
| SIGDOC 2016 | Sept 23-24 | 34 | Washington, D.C.[7] | United States | ||
| SIGDOC 2015 | July 15-17 | 33 | University of Limerick | Limerick, Ireland[8] | Ireland | |
| SIGDOC 2014 | Sept 27-28 | 32 | Colorado Springs, Colorado[9] | United States | ||
| SIGDOC 2013 | Sept 30-Oct 1 | 31 | East Carolina University | Greenville, North Carolina[10] | United States | |
| SIGDOC 2012 | Oct 3-5 | 30 | Seattle, Washington[11] | United States | ||
| SIGDOC 2011 | Oct 3-5 | 29 | Pisa, Tuscany | Italy | [12] | |
| SIGDOC 2010 | Sep 26-29 | 28 | Sao Carlos | Brazil | ||
| SIGDOC 2009 | Oct 5-7 | 27 | Indiana University | Bloomington, Indiana | United States | |
| SIGDOC 2008 | Sep 22-24 | 26 | ISCTE | Lisbon | Portugal | [13] |
| SIGDOC 2007 | Oct 22-24 | 25 | University of Texas - El Paso | El Paso, Texas | United States | |
| SIGDOC 2006 | Oct 18-20 | 24 | Coastal Carolina University | Myrtle Beach, South Carolina | United States | |
| SIGDOC 2005 | Sep 21-23 | 23 | Coventry, England | United Kingdom | ||
| SIGDOC 2004 | Oct 10-13 | 22 | University of Memphis | Memphis, Tennesse | United States | |
| SIGDOC 2003 | Oct 12-15 | 21 | San Francisco, California | United States | ||
| SIGDOC 2002 | Oct 20-23 | 20 | Toronto, Ontario | Canada | ||
| SIGDOC 2001 | Oct 21-24 | 19 | Santa Fe, New Mexico | United States | ||
| SIGDOC 2000 (with IEEE IPCC) | Sep 24-27 | 18 | Boston, Massachusetts | United States | ||
| SIGDOC 1999 | Sep 12-14 | 17 | New Orleans, Louisiana | United States |
- Conference Chairs
| Year | Name | Institution | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Rebekka Andersen | University of California, Davis | Davis, California, United States | |
| 2016 | Kathie Gossett | Iowa State University (ISU) | Ames, Iowa, United States | |
| 2015 | Kathie Gossett | Iowa State University (ISU) | Ames, Iowa, United States | |
| 2014 | Kathie Gossett | Iowa State University (ISU) | Ames, Iowa, United States | |
| 2013 | Michael Albers | East Carolina University | Greenville, North Carolina, United States | |
| 2012 | Mark Zachry | University of Washington | Seattle, Washington, United States |
- 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,[14] 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
Citations
- ^ Mehlenbacher, Brad (2011). "The Evolution of Communication Design: A Brief History of the Acm Sigdoc". Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. SIGDOC '11. New York, NY, USA: ACM: 249–256. doi:10.1145/2038476.2038524. ISBN 9781450309363.
- ^ a b "SIGDOC Rigo and Diana Awards". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-12.
- ^ "Brazilian Researcher Wins Coveted Rigo Award". Microsoft Research. 2010-11-08. Retrieved 2019-02-12.
- ^ "Spyridakis receives Rigo Award". Human Centered Design & Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Washington (UW). 2016-09-23. Retrieved 2019-02-12.
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- ^ [1]. Official 2017 Conference site.
- ^ [2]. Official 2016 Conference site.
- ^ [3]. Official 2015 Conference site.
- ^ [4]. Official 2014 Conference site.
- ^ [5]. Official 2013 Conference site.
- ^ 2012 ACM SIGDOC Conference. Official website of the Austin, Texas chapter of the Society for Technical Communication.
- ^ Aristidis Protopsaltis, Nicolas Spyratos, Carlos J. Costa,Carlo Meghini (Eds.): Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2011, Pisa, Italy, October 03 - 05 2011. ACM 2011.
- ^ Henrique O'Neill, Manuela Aparicio, Carlos J. Costa, Aristidis Protopsaltis (Eds.): Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2008, Lisbon, Portugal, September 22-24, 2008. ACM 2008.
- ^ Carlos J. Costa, Manuela Aparicio (Eds.): ISDOC 2013 International Conference on Information Systems and Design of Communication, ISDOC '13, Lisboa, Portugal, July 11–12, 2013. ACM 2013, ISBN 978-1-4503-2299-7