Overview
ACM SIGDOC, with its emphasis on communication and information, and its strong links to library and information science, design studies, and cognitive and computer science will be soliciting research papers, workshop proposals, experience reports, and posters are invited that emphasize the following thematic challenges:

• What do we mean by disciplinarity, intradisciplinarity, interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, multidisciplinary? Why do we maintain that this is a strength of ACM SIGDOC? How can your unique expertise or design experience contribute to a compelling future for the developing discipline of communication design?
• What do you see as the role of disciplinary expertise in problem solving, innovation, communication design and business process design, knowledge creation and management for the 21st century?
• What new economic realities and geopolitical issues do you see for communication designers?
• In preparing the next generation of communication designers, what abilities, attributes, prior knowledge and backgrounds, tasks and activities, competencies and contexts do you see as central?
• How would you describe the state of the field, based on past reflections and historically significant developments, accelerated environments and artifacts, or unrealized potentials?
• What emerging studies can you share on personalization, mediation, work and genre ecologies and activities, technical and educational opportunities and the challenges of sustainability and sharing?

Guidelines for Submission Types

• Research Papers — Proposals should not exceed 500 words. Final papers should not exceed 5,000 words, approximately 8 pages in ACM SIGDOC conference format (available at the site), including figures and references. The results described must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
• Workshops — Workshop proposals should not exceed 1,000 words. The proposal should describe the workshop’s theme, leader(s), structure, expected length, and participant selection criteria.
• Experience Reports — Proposals should not exceed 500 words. Experience reports present project- or workplace-focused summaries of important process or product processes and should not exceed 3,500 words. The experience report is a standalone, six-page extended abstract that describes a design experience and its lessons for other designers of communication. The experience report must include the title, names and affiliations of the authors, an abstract of up to 150 words, and keywords.
• Posters — Poster proposals should not exceed 1000 words. Posters provide an opportunity to present late-breaking results and new ideas in an informal, visual, and interactive format. Accepted poster submissions will receive a one page description in the conference proceedings. The submission should be formatted according to the ACM guidelines for paper submissions, but the length must be only one page.

Submission process
To submit your proposal, go to www.sigdoc.org/2009/submit. Students submitting proposals for the Graduate Student Competition should follow the submission process outlined here.

Acceptance for publication is contingent on registration for the conference. (In the case of multiple authors, at least one must register.) If you cannot attend the conference, a publication fee equivalent to the event registration will be charged.

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