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SIGDOC Newsletter
December 2007 :: Volume 8, Number 4
Our Members
Notes from the Chair
Dear SIGDOC Members,
It was good to see so many of you in El Paso, TX, and I hope you all enjoyed the conference as much as I did. General praise and congratulations go out to David Novick (General Chair) and Clay Spinuzzi (Program Chair) and the local arrangements folks. My personal favorite event at the conference was the banquet evening spent at the Ardovino Desert Crossing, not only for its proximity to the Mexican boarder (a stone's throw over nearby train-tracks), but also for the stimulating after-dinner presentation given by Michael Muller of IBM. During the question period, where issues ranged from the obscure and technical to the abstract and conceptual, I was reminded that I feel very much at home as a member of the ACM SIGDOC.
Speaking of our members, Andrea L. Ames, one of our own, has been acknowledged with an ACM Distinguished Engineer Award, recognizing ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience who have made significant accomplishments or achieved a significant impact on the computing field. Congratulations to Andrea!
Finally, please mark your calendars for our conference next September in Lisbon, Portugal! The ACM SIGDOC 2008 Website for our upcoming 26th International Conference on Design of Communication being held from September 22nd until September 24th, 2008, is up and ready for viewing: http://www.sigdoc2008.net. Conference planning is underway and the call for papers is currently online!
Hope you and yours are having a warm, peaceful and/or productive December!
Brad Mehlenbacher
Associate Professor, Training and Development (ACCE),
Adjunct/Associate Professor, Ergonomics (PSYCH),
and Affiliated Faculty, PhD in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media
NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7801
919.515.6242 (ph)
chair_sigdoc@acm.org (e-mail)
www4.ncsu.edu/~brad_m (url)
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Notes from the SIGDOC 07 Chairs; SIGDOC 2007: An Interdisciplinary Success
One of the highlights of being a SIGDOC member is going to the annual conference, an international affair that draws speakers from computer science, information science, technical communication, interface design, and many other fields and disciplines. Panels are always an interesting mix, and the interdisciplinary conversations are like no other conference.
This year was no exception. SIGDOC 2007 was held on the University of Texas - El Paso campus on October 22-24, 2007, drawing participants from five continents. These participants brought the tools and perspectives from many different fields to bear on the topic of communication design, leading to lively panel discussions that continued in hallways, restaurants, and bird-of-a-feather sessions. Michael Muller gave a thought-provoking keynote about designing information for ongoing collaboration awareness; Judith Ramey described the ongoing work of this year's Diana Award recipient, the University of Washington's Laboratory for Usability Testing and Evaluation.
If you weren't able to make it to SIGDOC 2007, the conference proceedings are now online at the ACM Digital Library (http://portal.acm.org). They're well worth checking out. And don't forget to prepare for SIGDOC 2008 in beautiful Lisbon, Portugal.
David Novick, Conference Chair (University of Texas, El Paso)
Clay Spinuzzi, Program Chair (University of Texas, Austin)
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