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Rigo Award
The Rigo award is named after Joseph Rigo, the founder of SIGDOC. The
award celebrates an individual's lifetime contribution to the field of
communication design. Since 2004, Rigo awards have been given every
other year, during even-numbered years.
Nominations for the Rigo award are considered carefully by the SIGDOC
Executive Board (elected and appointed members), and the final
recipients are determined in a series of run-off votes. Winners are announced
at the SIGDOC conference.
Since 1988, the Rigo award has been given to the following people:
- 2006: Dixie Goswami and Carolyn R. Miller, for their contributions
to
technical communication research, theory, and pedagogy
- 2004: Alan Cooper, author of About
Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design and The Inmates
Are Running the
Asylum.
- 2003: JoAnn Hackos, for contributions to the field of documentation
and usability.
- 2002: Stephen Doheny-Farina, Clarkson University Professor of Technical
Communications, for his professional contributions in the field of
technical communications.
- 2001: Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things and The
Invisible Computer.
- 2000: Barbara Mirel, for leadership in the field of technical communication
in usability, human factors, and instructional writing.
- 1999: Terry Winograd, for grounding human needs and consequences
of human-computer interactions, productively complicating rationalistic
traditions in computer
science, and providing important new research directions in
our field.
- 1998: Patricia Wright, for research on document design and
readable writing.
- 1997: Tom Landauer, for research on the human-computer vocabulary
problem and SuperBook.
- 1996: Ben Shneiderman, for research on human-computer interaction.
- 1995: Janice Redish, for research on document design and
usability.
- 1994: John Carroll, for research on minimalist documentation.
- 1993: Jay Bolter, author of Writing Space.
- 1992: Ed Tufte, author
of Envisioning Information, for research on visual design.
- 1991: John Chapline, author of the original ENIAC
and UNIVAC user manuals.
- 1990: Bill Horton, author of Designing and
Writing Online Documentation.
- 1989: Edmond Weiss, author of How to Write
a Usable User Manual.
- 1988: John Brockmann, for research on writing
computer user documentation.
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