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SIGDOC Newsletter
December 2004
:: Volume 5, Number 4
Looking Ahead
Conferences
SIGDOC 2005 -
http://www.sigdoc.org/2005
The 23rd International Conference on
Design of Communication
September 21 – 23, 2005; Coventry, UK
Theme: Documenting & Designing for Pervasive Information
For the first time ever, SIGDOC will be held in Europe: in Coventry,
UK. Coventry, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Mercia, with a history
of over 1000 years, is situated in the Midlands of England, with easy
access to cultural and historic sites such as Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick
and Kenilworth Castles, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Symphony Hall. Coventry
is 15 minutes by train from Birmingham International Airport, with direct
flights to the USA and continental Europe.
Pervasive computing delivers information technology into new environments
for new purposes – in everyday products, in implanted and wearable
devices, in global sensor networks, and in micro-machines. Innovation
is needed, both to describe and document these systems, and to understand
and exploit their potential for information gathering and retrieval.
SIGDOC is a multi-disciplinary forum, bringing together communicators,
information designers, computer scientists and others. We now invite
these communities to propose and report the research that will produce
this innovation.
Important Dates:
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Paper Submissions Due: May 27, 2005
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Workshop Proposals Due: June 10, 2005
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Notification to Authors: July 8, 2005
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Camera-Ready Due: August 5, 2005
More information on SIGDOC 2005, from the Program Chair, Bob Newman
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SIGDOC 2005 will open up some new horizons for the SIG for two reasons.
The first is that it will be held outside North America for the first
time. The location is the historic city of Coventry, in the heart of ‘Shakespeare
country’ in England. We hope that the location will open up the
conference for the European communications design community, while still
being readily accessible to our established supporters in the USA and
Canada, for whom it offers the opportunity to sample British and European
history and culture for travel costs which are in the same ball park
as internal long distance flights within North America.
The second new horizon is the theme of the conference. Recently, and
quietly, the title of the SIG was subtly changed, so that ‘DOC’ now
stands for ‘Design of Communication’, rather than ‘Documentation’.
This broadening of the remit of the SIG is reflected in the theme of
the conference which is ‘Documenting and Designing for Pervasive
Information’. While there is still a strong emphasis on documentation
systems, we are also very interested in the philosophy and practice of
design. The final part of the theme invites us to look forward to the
rapidly developing technologies that are providing pervasive information
systems, information delivered ‘anywhere’, on mobile systems,
and sourced from ‘everywhere’. Our emphasis is the design
of documentation systems in environments such as these, rather than the
retrieval or mining of information (although these are also interesting
topics in the context of document design). We believe that the theme
encompasses much of the subject coverage that we’ve seen at SIGDOC
in the past, including document design methodologies, single sourcing
in ubiquitous information environment, usability (particularly with respect
to the new presentation media and devices), cultural and organizational
aspects of document design and document authoring and structuring systems,
but it also provides an opportunity and challenge for other communities
to join the SIGDOC forum. We are hoping for contributions from the disciplines
of Computing, Technical Communication, Information and Graphics Design,
Cultural Studies, Language and Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology and
others to explore the future of design of communication for the world
of pervasive information systems.
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