News – Special Interest Group on Design of Communication

CDQ issue 7-2 is now live!

We are happy to announce the latest issue of Communication Design Quarterly (Volume 7 Issue 2) is now live:

Editorial by Derek G. Ross

Guest Editorial by Mike Albers

Testing the Difference Between Appearance and Ability Customization by Ryan Rogers and Laura Dunlow

Reducing Harm by Designing for Opioid Users’ Contexts: The Chicago Recovery Alliance’s Community-Based Context of Use and PwrdBy’s Technology-Based Context of Use by Kristen Marie Bivens

DJs, Playlists, and Community: Imagining Communication Design through Hip Hop by Victor Del Hierro

How Developers Use API Documentation: An Observation Study by Michael Meng, Stephanie Steinhardt, and Andreas Schubert

Queering Consent: Design and Sexual Consent Messaging by Avery C. Edenfield

Book Review: Rhetoric and Experience Architecture by Leslie Hankey

SIGDOC Election Results 2019

Dear SIGDOC Community,

I am pleased to announce the results of the ACM SIGDOC Election Results and present the newly elected SIGDOC Executive Board (for the term of 1 July 2019 – 30 June 2021.)

Pricing for this SIGDOC 2019: Improving transparency, lowering prices

Recently, there has been a lot of talk about how conferences communicate their values. The SIGDOC Executive Committee and the 2019 conference committee is thinking about how the conference communicates the values of the organization and the committee. Over the

2019 Rigo Award Winner Announced

SIGDOC is pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Rigo Award, Samantha Blackmon, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University. The Rigo award celebrates an individual’s lifetime contribution to the field of communication design.

Winners of the 2019 SIGDOC Career Advancement Grants

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 SIGDOC Career Advancement Grants. Participatory Communication Design of Mapping Borderlands: Decolonizing Cartographic Information Design and Creating a Participatory Mapping Interface by Eda Ozyesilpinar, Ph.D. and Victor Del Hierro, Ph.D. Improving

CDQ Issue 7-1 is now live!

We are happy to announce the latest issue of Communication Design Quarterly (Volume 7 Issue 1) is now live: Guest Editorial: The Revenge of Plato’s Pigs by Sarah-Beth Hopton Maps, Silence, and Standing Rock: Seeking a Visuality for the Age of Environmental

SIGDOC Elections: Please vote!

Dear Colleagues, It’s time to vote! If your ACM SIGDOC membership is current, you should have received an email today to signify your opportunity to vote for our next Executive Committee for ACM SIGDOC. I encourage you to take the

Nominations open for the 2019 Rigo Award

ACM SIGDOC is soliciting nominations for the 2019 Rigo Award, to be awarded at the 2019 SIGDOC conference in Portland, OR. The Rigo Award celebrates an individual’s lifetime contribution to the field of communication design and is awarded every other year. The Rigo Award winner is invited to give a keynote at the SIGDOC conference.

Requesting Election Nominations

SIGDOC is searching for volunteer-leaders to run for election in 2019. About SIGDOC The ACM Special Interest Group for Design of Communication is a vibrant international professional organization providing a forum for researchers and practitioners of the design of communication,

Listening to our community

This summer we had an incredibly successful annual conference in Milwaukee, WI. During the conference, SIGDOC leadership engaged the community in a series of listening sessions. We wanted to hear from attendees and SIGDOC members about how the organization is

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