Print it!

Map of IU's Memorial Union, annotated for SIGDOC

Printer-friendly Program

Final Program

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4

• Workshop #1 -- Visualizing Patterns of Knowledge Work in Organizations
  This six-hour workshop explores an approach to creating meaningful accounts of knowledge work in organizations. The approach includes data collection, analytical, and visualization techniques. Read more about this workshop at Workshops.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 ..........................................................................

Welcome (Moderated by Brad Mehlenbacher)

• Welcome to SIGDOC '09: Conference Co-Chairs
• Welcome to IU: Ramesh Venkataraman, Associate Professor of IS and Jim Shea, Director of Planning for the IU School of Informatics
  
• Invited Speaker: Michael Priestley, IBM: Darwin Information Typing Architecture - Modular content for an integrated world

Session 1: Designing for Users (Moderated by Mark Zachry)

• User-Centered Design, Activity-Centered Design, and Goal-Directed Design: A Review of Three Methods for Designing Web Applications -- Ashley Williams
• Enhancing User Interface Design Patterns with Design Rationale Structures -- Jordan Janeiro
  
• <Methods>Experience Design </Methods> -- Liza Potts

Session 2A: Accessibility (Moderated by Kathy Haramundanis)

• Acoustic Interaction Design through “Audemes”: Experiences with the Blind -- Mexhid Ferati
• Facilita: Reading assistance for low literacy readers -- Willian Massami Watanabe
• The Transition From Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 to 2.0: What This Means for Evaluation and Repair -- Grace Mbipom

Session 2B: Teaching & Disciplinarity (Moderated by Mike Albers)

• A Framework for Adaptive Communication Design -- Matthew Bell
• Outstanding teachers and ICT -- Aristidis Protopsaltis
• Multidisciplinarity and 21st Century Communication Design -- Brad Mehlenbacher

Session 3: Web Design & Analysis (Moderated by Liza Potts)

• Developing Heuristics for the Semiotics Inspection of Websites -- Davide Bolchini
• Evaluating the Communication Design of Branded Websites - A Value-Based Framework -- Tao Yang
  
• Design of Communication in Multimodal Web Interfaces -- Junia Anacleto
  

Session 4A: Help Systems (Moderated by Mike Albers)

• Semantic Transparency in User Assistance Systems -- Andrea Kohlhase
• The Micro-structure of Use of Help -- David Novick
• Synchronous Online Help Support with Visual Instruction Aids for Workflow-based MVC Web Applications -- Marcel Karam
  

Session 4B: Applications and Architectures (Moderated by Junia Anacleto)

• Progressional Awareness: Designing a co-authoring tool to support the planning process --Ilaria Liccardi
• User’s Issues in Cross Media Applications -- Joao Soares de Oliveira Neto
• Using Sound to Understand Software Architecture -- Lewis Berman
  

Session 5: User Assistance & Documentation (Moderated by Ashley Williams)

• Modeling Task Experience in User Assistance Systems -- Michael Kohlhase
• The Macro-structure of Use of Help -- David Novick
• Modularization in Documentation -- Katherine Haramundanis
  

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6 ..........................................................................

Session 6: Document Use & Reuse (Moderated by David Novick)

• GRADUATE STUDENT COMPETITION WINNER: Rhetorical Models for Computational Systems: An interdisciplinary approach to reusable tailorable medical information -- Ashley Rose Kelly
• Providing Culturally contextualized metadata to promote sharing and reuse of Learning Objects -- David Buzatto
• Information Relationships: The source of useful and usable content -- Michael J .Albers
  

Invited Speakers (Moderated by Aris Protopsaltis)

• Invited Speaker: IBM, Jason Melton: Bridging the divide between academic learning and real-world skills
• Invited Speaker: IU, Jim Shea: What's Informatics at IU?

Invited Panel: The Role of Technology in Communication Design (Moderated by Shaun Slattery)

Session 7: Web Design & Development (Moderated by Ashley Williams)

• The Effectiveness of Design Charrettes in a Multimedia Design Course -- Richard Edwards
• LEGO Bricks in Website Design -- Davide Bolchini
• Web Communication and Interaction Modeling Using Model Driven Development with Accessibility and Usability Principles -- Willian Watanabe
  

Workshop #2 -- Mapping Genre Fields
This 75-minute workshop will introduce the components and methodology of genre field analysis and engage participants in mapping genre fields in which they are currently immersed. Read more about this workshop at Workshops.

Session 8: Analyzing Texts (Moderated by Scott Tilley)

• Enhancing Research into Usable Privacy and Security -- Colin Birge
• Issues in Comparing Gene Function Annotation in Text-- Youngik Yang
• Automatically Identifying relations in privacy policies -- John Stamey
  

Session 9: Interactivity in the Design of Communication (Moderated by Brad Mehlenbacher)

• Documenting Software Systems with Views VI: Lessons Learned from 15 Years of Research & Practice --Scott Tilley
• Confounding Definitions: Using a Continuum to Understand Interactivity -- Katie Retzinger
• Accounting for Affective Responses in Video Games -- Dave Jones
  

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7..........................................................................

Workshop #3 -- Graphical Documentation: Documenting SOA-Based Systems
This three-hour workshop is the 7th in a series of events exploring graphical documentation in the context of aiding system understanding. Read more about this workshop at Workshops.

Session 10: The Design of Documentation (Moderated by Shaun Slattery)

• Lessons from Trying to Develop a Robust Documentation Exemplar -- Lynn Robert Carter
• Practice Theory & the Foundations of Digital Document Design -- Paul Scifleet

Session 11: Online Information Exchange, Use, & Adoption (Moderated by Shaun Slattery)

• Web 2.0 Proclivity: Understanding how Personal Use Influences Organizational Adoption -- Anne Massey
  
• Context Information Exchange and Sharing in a Peer-to-Peer Community: a Video Annotation Scenario -- Renan Gonçalves Cattelan
• Did you put it on the wiki? Information Sharing through Wikis in Interdisciplinary Design Collaboration -- Ammy Jiranida Phuwanartnurak
  

Session 12: Online 'Fact-building' and Meaning-making (Moderated by Aris Protopsaltis)

• The Collaborative Construction of 'Fact' on Wikipedia -- Jason Swarts
  
• “Edit This Page”: The Socio-technological Infrastructure of a Wikipedia Article -- Shaun Slattery
  
• Backchannel Persistence and Collaborative Meaning-Making -- Brian McNel