Thanks for helping make SIGDOC 2001 a success! See you next year in Toronto for SIGDOC 2002!

Communicating in the
New Millennium

October 21 -- 24, 2001
Santa Fe, NM

•  100 Communicating Effectively with Interaction, Andrea Ames, Ucentrics, USA
•  112 Learnability in Information Design, Kathy Haramundanis, Compaq Computer Corp., USA
•  117 Yes, but does it scale? Practical considerations for database-driven information systems, John Russell, Oracle Corporation, USA

• 131, Design Principles for Learning Spatial Relationships, Elisa Rubegni, University of Siena, Italy
• 133 Semiotic Engineering Contributions for Designing Online Help Systems, Milene Silveira, PUC-Rio, Brazil Canceled
• 137 Example Elaboration as a Neglected Instructional Strategy, T. R. Girill, University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

• 120, Datacloud: Expanding the Locations and Roles of Documentation, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Clarkson University, USA
• 140, Writers in the dot.com storm, Ceri Williams, Basis100 Inc., Canada
• 134, Software Development as Mediated Activity: Applying Three Analytical Frameworks for Studying Compound Mediation, Clay Spinuzzi, University of Texas at Austin, USA

• 111, Controlled Language Authoring Technology (CLAT): Authoring Aids for Multilingual Technical Information, Johann Haller, University of Saarbrücken, Germany  Canceled
• 114, Interplay of Language and Culture in Global E-commerce: A Comparison of Five Companies’ Multilingual Websites, Shaoyi He, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• 119, Editing Hardware Procedures for Multimedia Presentation, Sue Jackson, Sun Microsystems, USA

• 116, Single Sourcing for Translations, Deborah Hysell, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., USA
• 136, Building A Culturally-Competent International Corporate Website: An
  Exploratory Study on Cultural Markers in Multilingual Websites, Huatong Sun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• 142, Issues of Content and Structure for a Multilingual Web Site, Shihong Huang, University of California, Riverside

• 101, Just What They Need, Just When They Need It: An Introduction to Embedded Assistance, Andrea Ames, Ucentrics, USA
• 124,  Encapsulated Information: Teaching Common Design Principles, Rebecca Matson, Computer Associates, USA
• 130, Document-based Interorganisational Information Exchange, Reinhard Riedl, University of Zurich, Switzerland

• 104, Open-Source Documentation: In Search of User-Driven, Just-in-Time Writing, Michael Priestley, IBM Toronto, Canada
• 127, Users and Uses of Synchronous Business Communications Software, David Novick, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
• 128, A Rhetoric of Objects, Jonathan Price, The Communication Circle, USA

• 143, DITA XML: A Reuse by Reference Architecture for Technical Documentation, Michael Priestley, IBM Toronto, Canada
• 144, Transforming Documentation from the XML Doctypes Used on the Apache Website to DITA: A Case Study, Don Leslie, Cambridge Advanced Technology Group, IBM Research, Cambridge, MA., USA
• 132, IDDS: An Interactive Decentralized Documentation System, Harald Sack, Universität Trier, Germany

• 115, The Global Impact of eBooks on ePublishing, Harold Henke, IBM Learning Services, USA
• 118, Book metaphor - friend or foe? An online information system that combines hypertext and book-based navigation, John Russell, Oracle Corporation, USA
•  ACM SIGDOC Graduate Student Competition Award Winner, "XML and the New Design Regime: Application Developers, Authors and Readers in Changing Technological Conditions and Perceptions of Social and Technological Need", Gilbert Wilkes, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

• 103, Retrieval of Information Using Palm Handhelds, Michael Albers, University of Memphis, USA
• 126, Creating a virtual library with HomePageSearch and Mops, Gerd Hoff,  Universität Trier, Germany  Canceled
• 141, Single-Source Indexing, Jan Wright, Wright Information Indexing Services, USA