The 2015 SIGDOC Conference will be held in Limerick, Ireland on the campus of the University of Limerick. Below is a general conference schedule that you can use for travel planning. A conference program will be posted closer to the conference date. All conference events will take place at the Kimmy Business School on the University of Limerick campus unless otherwise noted.
GENERAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015 |
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17:30 |
18:30 |
Welcome Happy Hour |
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18:30 |
21:00 |
SIGDOC Board Meeting and Dinner |
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Thursday, July 16, 2015 |
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8:00 |
17:00 |
Registration Open |
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8:00 |
10:00 |
SIGDOC Board Meeting |
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10:00 |
12:00 |
Workshop: User Experience and Social Justice Douglas Walls and Danielle Ridenour, University of Central Florida |
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Research Network Led by Claire Lauer, Arizona State University |
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12:00 |
12:45 |
Lunch Break |
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12:45 |
13:00 |
Opening Remarks Liza Potts, SIGDOC Chair |
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13:00 |
14:15 |
Session 1A: User Experience – Room 13
Cait Ryan and Liza Potts: Leading Participant-Centered Research: An Argument for Taking a More Strategic Role as User Experience Architects Cheri Mullins: Responsive, Mobile App, Mobile First: Untangling the UX Design Web in Practical Experience Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Ryan Baker, Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo, Aatish Salvi, Martin van Velsen, Ani Aghababyan, and Taylor Martin: HART: The Human Affect Recording Tool |
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| Session 1B: Multimodal Production – Room 14
Mei-Kei Lai: Universal Scent Blackbox: Engaging Visitor Communication through Creating Olfactory Experiences at an Art Museum Suzanne Lane, Andreas Karatsolis, and Lily Bui: Graphical Abstracts: A Taxonomy and Critique of an Emerging Genre |
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| Session 1C: SRC Undergraduate Poster Session – Room 15
Angelia Giannone: Picturing Information for Money: Visual Usage in Humanities-based Grant Applications Elizabeth Oderkirk and Kimberly Jung: From Connect-Exchange to ConnectX: The (Iterative) Story of a Mobile App Mikal Post: The Impact of the Interface: Responding to Student Writing in CMS’s |
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| Session 1D: SRC Graduate Poster Session – Main Lecture Hall – Room 12 (Room Sponsored by: University of Minnesota, Department of Writing Studies) (Posters will be available for viewing throughout the conference)Clayton Benjamin: Government Transparency in the U.S? The Ethics, Functional Literacy, and Usability of Open Geographic Government Data Landon Berry: They’lI Ve: Combining Surrealist Research and Computer-Mediated Tools for Social Justice Daniel G. Cabrero: User-Created Persona: Namibian rural Otjiherero speakers Brandy Dieterle: Designing Smartphone Apps for At Risk Populations: Domestic Violence Survivors and User Experience Laura Gonzales: Portable Pedagogy: How Interaction Design Made Us Better Teachers Lindsey Harding: Re-Imag(in)ing the Digital Domestic Sphere: A Critical-Creative Study of Photography and Motherhood in the 21st Century Valerie Kasper: The Resonance and Residue of the First African American Newspaper: How Freedom’s Journal Created Space in the Early 19th Century Sara Raffel: Interactive Story: Project Management from Inception to Testing Pam Wall: Web Communication: Exploring the Need for Communication-Specific Heuristics in Website Evaluation Joseph Yun: What’s a Better Category? Shavers or Father’s Day Gifts? |
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14:15 |
14:30 |
Break |
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14:30 |
15:00 |
Ignite Talks – Main Lecture Hall – Room 12 (Room Sponsored by: University of Minnesota, Department of Writing Studies) Yvonne Cleary: Irish Technical Communicators as a Community of Practice Adam Strantz: Not all those who wander are lost: Wayfinding and Localized Knowledges Krista Kennedy: Owning Automated Authorship |
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15:15 |
17:00 |
Session 2A : Developing Principles – Room 13Sarah Gunning: Identifying Latent Variables in Nonprofit Proposal Writing: Results of Two Structural Equation ModelsClaas Digmayer, Sara Vogelsangs, and Eva-Maria Jakobs: Designing Mobility Apps to Support Intermodal Travel Chains
Fer O’Neil: Target Data Breach: Applying User-Centered Design Principles to Data Breach Notifications |
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| Session 2B: Posters – Room 14
Kathryn Northcut: Barriers to publishing visual rhetoric research Sonia Stephens: Interactive data visualization for risk assessment: Can there be too much user agency? Heather Noel Turner: Economies of Type: The Public Quest for Cheap Printing Adam Strantz: Globalizing Technical Communication Research through Digital Mapping |
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| Session 2C: SocioTechnical Frameworks – Room 15
Jose Abdelnour Nocera and Soulemane Camara: Addressing Sociotechnical Gaps in the Design and Deployment of Digital Resources in Rural Kenya Ali Gheitasy, Jose’ Abdelnour-Nocera, and Bonnie Nardi: Socio-technical Gaps in Online Collaborative Consumption (OCC): An Example of the Etsy Community Mark McGuire and Constance Kampf: Using Social Media Sentiment Analysis for Interaction Design Choices: An exploratory framework |
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| Session 2D: SRC Graduate Research Presentations – Main Lecture Hall – Room 12 (Room Sponsored by: University of Minnesota, Department of Writing Studies) The second round of the Student Research Competition includes the top five students in each category (undergraduate and graduate) from the first round of the competition (the SRC poster session). |
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18:00 |
21:00 |
Traditional Irish Night Banquet and Diana Award |
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Friday, July 17, 2015 |
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8:00 |
12:00 |
Registration Open |
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8:00 |
9:00 |
Women in Technical Communication Breakfast |
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9:30 |
10:30 |
Keynote Women in Technical Communication |
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10:30 |
10:45 |
Break |
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10:45 |
12:00 |
Session 3A: Design and Communication – Room 13
Joseph Fanfarelli and Rudy McDaniel: Digital Badges for Deliberate Practice: Designing Effective Badging Systems for Interactive Communication Scenarios Brett Oppegaard, Thomas Conway, and Megan Conway: Envisioning Mobile Apps for Audio Description: Exploring Universal Design of National Park Service Brochures Marjorie Rush Hovde: Effective User Experience in Online Technical Communication Courses: Employing Multiple Methods within Organizational Contexts to Assess Usability Joe Moxley, Cassandra Branham, and Valerie Ross: My Reviewers: Participatory Design & Crowd-Sourced Usability Processes |
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| Session 3B: Online Development – Room 14
Luke Thominet: Building Foundations for the Crowd: Minimalist Author Support Guides for Crowdsourced Documentation Wikis Michael Trice: Putting GamerGate in Context: How Group Documentation Informs Social Media Activity Hyunggu Jung, Sungsoo (Ray) Hong, Perry Meas, and Mark Zachry: Designing Tools to Support Advanced Users in New Forms of Social Media Interaction Jill Manderson, Binod Sundararajan, and Linda Macdonald: Teaching Public Speaking Without the Public: Making a Case for Virtual Audiences |
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| Session 3C: Workplace Design – Main Lecture Hall – Room 12 (Room Sponsored by: University of Minnesota, Department of Writing Studies) Clay Spinuzzi, Gregory Pogue, R. Scott Nelson, Keela S. Thomson, Fracesca Lorenzini, Rosemary A. French, Sidney D. Burback, and Joel Momberger: How do entrepreneurs hone their pitches? Analyzing how pitch presentations develop in a technology commercialization competition Ben Lauren: Participating in Project Management Experiences in the Workplace Doris Aschenbrenner, Michael Frischer, Felix Sittner, and Klaus Schilling: Design Process for User Interaction with Robotic Manipulators in Industrial Internet Applications Ralph H. Earle, Mark A. Rosso, Kathryn E. Alexander: User Preferences of Software Documentation Genres |
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| Session 3D: SRC Undergraduate Research Presentation – Room 15
The second round of the Student Research Competition includes the top five students in each category (undergraduate and graduate) from the first round of the competition (the SRC poster session). |
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12:00 |
13:00 |
Lunch Break |
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13:00 |
14:15 |
Session 4A: Societal Implications – Main Lecture Hall – Room 12 (Room Sponsored by: University of Minnesota, Department of Writing Studies) Emma Rose and Rebecca Watson: Factors to Actors: Implications of Posthumanism for Social Justice Work Andrew Mara and Miriam Mara: Capturing Social Value in UX Projects |
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| Session 4B: Academic Applications – Room 13
Kathie Gossett: Designing an Archive for Born-Digital Dissertations Alice Daer: Emphasizing Technical Communication as the Intersection of STEM and Humanities Seán McCarthy: Moving from Site to Presence with a Writing Program’s Online Identity |
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| Session 4C: Medical and Health Design – Room 14
Antoinette Larkin: Dispelling Myths, Motivating Action: Rhetorical Complexities and Information Challenges in the Heart Healthy Advocacy Website, Go Red for Women Marie Moeller: The Obese Body as Interface: Fat Studies, Medical Data, and Infographics Kirk St. Amant: A Prototype Theory Approach to Internationalizing Information Design in Health and Medical Communication Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch: Users to the Rescue: The Role of User-Generated Content (UGC) in the Minnesota Affordable Care Act (ACA) Website Launch |
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| Session 4D: Thinking Tools for Moving Across Boundaries – Room 15
Sarah Tinker Perrault, Susan Verba, Prerna Dudani, Yohei Kato, and Sumayyah Ahmed |
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14:15 |
14:30 |
Break |
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14:30 |
14:45 |
SRC AwardsMain Lecture Hall – Room 12 (Room Sponsored by: University of Minnesota, Department of Writing Studies) |
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14:45 |
15:15 |
Ignite Talks – Main Lecture Hall – Room 12 (Room Sponsored by: University of Minnesota, Department of Writing Studies) Ben Lauren: Sound as a catalyst for inspiring positive collaborative experiences Dawn Armfeld: The changing landscape of wearable technologies |
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15:30 |
17:00 |
Session 5A: Writing the Future of Experience Architecture: A Roundtable Discussion – Main Lecture Hall – Room 12 (Room Sponsored by: University of Minnesota, Department of Writing Studies)
Michael Salvo, Liza Potts, Andrew Mara, Stephanie Vie, and Michael Trice |
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